Turning Point USA event at University of Maryland goes on despite disagreement over extra security fees

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The University of Maryland is being criticized for charging its Turning Point USA chapter additional security fees to host an on-campus lecture.

On October 22 Turning Point scheduled an event with guest speaker Cabot Phillips, senior editor at the conservative leaning media outlet, The Daily Wire.

UMD campus police reportedly required Turning Point to hire extra event staff, at their own expense, to conduct bag checks for attendees.

Turning Point alleges the mandate stemmed from increased threats the organization's faced, since their founder Charlie Kirk's September assassination.

In a statement, the University of Maryland said they impose "the same related security fees on other event hosts holding similar types of guest speaker events, regardless of the content or