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The office of the District 10 Baltimore City Councilwoman, Phylicia Porter.

Member: Public Safety and Government Operations (SGO) Committee
Member: Education, Workforce, and Youth (EWY) Committee
Member: Health, Environment, and Technology (HET) Committee

11/02/2026

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11/02/2026

"In my field, we don't wait for harm to happen."

I'm a public health scientist, and that's why I wrote this bill.

Council Bill 26-0160 requires fi***rm dealers in Baltimore City (gun stores, pawn shops, sporting goods stores) to post safe storage information and su***de prevention resources, including 988, at the point of sale.

Thank you to Chair Bullock, the Public Safety Committee, and the nine colleagues who co-sponsored this bill. It now goes to second reader before the full City Council.
Call or text 988, free, any time.

10/31/2026

Leadership often happens between the big votes, in rooms that rarely make headlines. This past week I was in three of them, across District 10 and beyond.

We focused on health and wellness at The Morrell Park Elementary Middle School, I led a Model Congress workshop with students at the Teen Legislative Summit hosted by baltimorechapterjackandjill, and I stood with survivors and advocates at Rooted in Resilience as Baltimore Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement-MONSE closed out Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

These are the people this work is for, and I am grateful for every one of them.

📸 KFinch Photography

10/29/2026

Help should already be there. That is the idea behind my new episode of I've Got Time.
I walk through two bills I sponsored and the leadership behind them, and one of them is personal. I shout out my late grandmother, Louise Washington, my namesake and a domestic violence survivor.

The bill requires domestic violence resource information to be posted in City-owned and City-occupied buildings.

I am honest about where it came from. It started with advocates and survivors who lived it and spent years navigating the system. You don't have to originate every idea to lead it, and I was grateful to champion this one.

Sometimes leadership means recognizing that the community already has the answers. We don't need to reinvent the wheel. We just need to make help easier to find.

I also get into the Behavioral Health Resource Awareness Act (previously named the Mental Health Resource Awareness Act), the 988 Su***de and Crisis Lifeline, and the difference between compliance and accountability once a law is on the books.

Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/lW0_LBWUlJs

10/28/2026

Did you know only 11% of Baltimore residents can name 988 as the number to dial for mental health support? That comes from a 2025 Behavioral Health System Baltimore survey.

wypr881fm reported on my Mental Health Resources Awareness Act this month. A resource only helps when people know it’s there, so the bill puts 988 resources where people already are, at the corner store, in city buildings, and in the hands of the workers they see every day. No one should be left searching for help in a crisis.

10/28/2026

10/27/2026

Food is health. So when four grocery stores told me my neighborhoods weren't worth the investment, I didn't let it go. We wrote the Community Healthy Food Access Act, and Mayor Brandon Scott signed it into law. It puts city dollars behind businesses willing to bring fresh, affordable food to neighborhoods that have gone without.

This is the hill I'll die on. No family in Baltimore should have to leave their own block to eat well.

📸 KFinch Photography

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