Jared Solomon started his career as a high school social studies teacher in Baltimore City through Teach for America and has worked as a senior policy advisor in the US Senate for Senator Bob Casey. He is a second term member of the Maryland House of Delegates representing District 18 and serves as the Deputy Speaker Pro Tem and sits on the Appropriations Committee. He serves as the Vice-chair of the Education & Economic Development Subcommittee. \u00a0In addition, he serves on the Capital Budget Subcommittee, and is House Chair of Joint Audit and Evaluation Committee and the House Chair of the MD Transit Caucus. As a legislator, Jared focuses on improving our education system, investing & expanding transit, pedestrian safety, labor rights, the environment, and college access for first generation students.<\/p>\n
Last session, Jared worked with students, parents, and advocates from across Maryland and the country to pass legislation protecting our young people on-line. Modelled on legislation implemented in the UK and unanimously passed (with bi-partisan support) in CA, the bill requires companies redesign their services to better protect children, including disabling features that allow direct messaging of children by unknown adults, establishing default settings that automatically offer a higher bar of safety and data privacy for children\u2019s profiles, and limiting information that identifies the geographical location of children online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7485,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"class_list":["post-5639","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n