Thursday's special meeting could reveal how far Washington County officials are willing to go to push the ICE warehouse project forward.
The Washington County Commissioners are holding a special meeting and this deserves your attention for one reason above all others: after discussing controversial infrastructure contracts and sewer agreements in public, the commissioners plan to move into another closed session.
The stated reason is “legal advice pertaining to statutory interpretation and potential litigation,” but the public still has no clear explanation about what statute, what litigation, or why this discussion cannot happen openly.
At a moment when residents are already questioning transparency around the proposed ICE warehouse project, secrecy only deepens distrust. Washington County residents should be paying very close attention to what happens tomorrow, what gets discussed behind closed doors, and what the Commissioners choose not to say publicly.
As the Washington County NAACP wrote:
"The proposed ICE detention center warehouse is currently halted over severe sewage and wastewater violations from the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE). We believe this county-wide study is possibly engineered as a smokescreen to hand-pick an insider who will override state environmental orders and force the detention center forward."
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