Here is what the liberal Democrats are up too in California.
California Bill Could Criminalize Criticism of Public Schools
California lawmakers are considering legislation that critics warn could criminalize parents’ speaking out at school-board meetings or otherwise criticizing school officials.
Passed by the California Senate in May and now under consideration in the Assembly, SB 596 would amend state law to classify causing “substantial disorder” at a school-board meeting or engaging in “harassment” of a school employee as a misdemeanor punishable by fines and imprisonment. It would also broaden the definition of “school employee” to include “any employee or official of a school district, a charter school, a county office of education, a county board of education, the state board, or the State Department of Education.”
Existing law considers it a crime when a parent or guardian “materially disrupts classwork or extracurricular activities or [causes] substantial disorder.” In other words, it’s illegal to interfere with the normal operation of a school.
Under SB 596, however, the following is added after “substantial disorder”: “including substantial disorder at any meeting of the governing board of a school district, the governing body of a charter school, a county board of education, or the state board.” In short, a parent who appeared at a school-board meeting and made an impassioned speech against, say, gender policies, could well be charged with a crime. Such a speech, after all, is likely to cause some kind of “disorder.”
“It’s clear they’re trying to chill parents from speaking out,” Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow Sarah Parshall Perry told the Daily Signal.
“I find it curious that there’s no definition of ‘substantial’ or ‘disruption’ within the proposed text,” she said. “Considering that these are essential terms for the bill, it’s likely that if passed, the law would fall under a vagueness challenge.”
California Bill Could Criminalize Criticism of Public Schools - The New American