Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) on Wednesday signed a bill that reversed the state’s anti-truancy law, one of the most contentious policies that former Vice President Kamala Harris championed more than a decade ago during her time as San Francisco district attorney.
The controversial 2011 policy punished parents for their children’s chronic absence from school, slapping them with misdemeanors.
Harris pitched the bill in 2010 as a form of crime prevention. At the time, her office worked with the San Francisco Unified School District to target parents of truant children, sending them letters and having them meet with prosecutors. A “chronic truant” was defined as a child absent from class for 10% or more of the school year.
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Harris claimed that putting pressure on the parents would “allow local
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