D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is solidifying her legislative priorities for the rest of the year — and continuing the crackdown on youth crime is one of them.
In a letter to the D.C. Council sent on Tuesday, Bowser shared a brief list of her administration’s priorities. First on that list is the Juvenile Curfew Emergency Amendment Act of 2025, the piece of emergency legislation that changed the curfew law over the summer and increased enforcement in designated areas.
The summer’s emergency law amended the Juvenile Curfew Act of 1995 “to authorize the Mayor to extend the juvenile curfew hours in the District when appropriate to protect public safety or public or private property,” the legislation states. Under the law, the curfew moved from midnight to 11 p.m., on weekends through July and August, and included 17-year-olds in the definition of “youth.”…