Maryland HB 578, titled "Identification to Police Officer" would make it a misdemeanor to withhold one's identity from a police officer who has detained the person. It is a horrible affront to civil libertities and would inevitably be used as a tool against young people and minority citizens in the state. Not surprisingly, it is co-sponsored by John Cluster.

As the ACLU writes, "the police do not need, and should not have, the power to arrest you simply for declining to identify yourself on demand."

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