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Bill barring ‘mom,’ ‘dad’ from texts passes The California state Senate today passed a bill that removes sex-specific terms such as "mom" and "dad" from textbooks and requires students to learn about the contributions homosexuals have made to society.LAPD handcuffed from doing their job In 1979, I was the police officer who actually drafted "Special Order 40." I did so under protest, but was ordered to actually draft the order and prepare it for the signature of Chief of Police Daryl F. Gates…Bill to ban ‘mom, dad’ from texts advances A bill requiring students to learn about the contributions homosexuals have made to society and that would remove sex-specific terms such as "mom" and "dad" from textbooks has passed another hurdle on the way to becoming the law of the land in California.Homeowners ban Bible study Two residents of a Southern California senior mobile home park are suing the homeowner’s association for barring prayer and Bible study meetings in common areas.S.F. approves penalties for anti-gun ordinance Despite an ongoing lawsuit with the National Rifle Association, San Franciscos Board of Supervisors set penalties last week on what is regarded as one of the toughest anti-gun laws in the country.Intern fired for sharing faith A straight-A student, Escobar was complimented regularly by the DCFS for her work. But she came under scrutiny for sharing her faith with co-workers during lunch breaks and after-hours, and for changing into a shirt with a religious message – "Found" – after signing out for the day, according to the Pacific Justice Institute, which is representing her.Judge upholds parade’s ban on Minutemen A judge in Southern California rejected a temporary restraining order that would allow the volunteer border-patrol group Minuteman Project to participate in Laguna Beach’s Patriots’ Day Parade.Elementary Teacher Accused Of Tying Kids To Chairs With Computer cords A teacher at a Los Angeles-area elementary school is accused of using computer cords to restrain students to their chairs at the waist and legs, according to a Local 6 News report.Who owns your kids? Seven California parents filed a petition with the 9th Circuit Court ofNRA to File Suit Against San Francisco Gun Ban San Francisco voters this week passed what could become the nation’s strictest gun ban when they outlawed not only the sale of guns in the city, but required almost everyone who is not a cop, security guard or member of the military to surrender their handguns to police by April 1.Californians Consider Abortion Limits Californians will decide whether to make it harder for girls to terminate pregnancies without their parents’ knowledge, but recent polls suggest they will reaffirm voters’ long-standing support for unfettered abortion access.Parent wins court battle over evolution U.S. District Court Judge Frank C. Damrell Jr. ruled citizens have a First Amendment right to propose policy at school board meetings concerning the hot-button issue of evolution.Judge sued for ordering ‘no-speech zones’ A judge who declared all public areas of Los Angeles County courthouses "no speech zones" has been hit with a federal civil rights lawsuit.Student secures right to dance to Christian music After threatening legal action, a California student won the right to perform a dance audition accompanied by Christian music after public school officials barred it.Visa, MasterCard Win Battle Over Breach A California judge ruled Friday that Visa USA Inc. and MasterCard International Inc. don’t have to send individual warnings to thousands of consumers whose personal account information was stolen during a high-tech heist uncovered earlier this year.Schwarzenegger Proposes Lifelong Satellite Tracking for Sex Offenders Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed sweeping penalties for sex offenders, including a requirement that paroled molesters wear satellite tracking devices for life. LAPD Computer Targets Rogue Cops Dogged by scandal, the Los Angeles Police Department is looking beyond human judgment to technology to identify bad cops.Student ID Badges Raise Privacy Questions A pilot program that used radio frequency ID badges to take attendance at a small California school may have failed, but the founder of the company that provided the technology says this isn’t the end of what could be a forward trend in American schools.Town [Sutter] Gives Brave New World an F Lauren Tatro, 13, told her parents the plain facts. Every student at Brittan Elementary School had to wear a badge the size of an index card with their name, grade, photo and a tiny radio identification tag. The purpose was to test a new high-tech attendance system. To the eighth-grader, it seemed students had been turned into grocery items on the shelf, slabs of sirloin at the meat counter, fruit in the produce section.Parents protest school mandate that students wear radio ID tags The only grade school in this rural town is requiring students to wear radio frequency identification badges that can track their every move. Some parents are outraged, fearing it will rob their children of privacy.Schools barred from telling parents of abortion California schools cannot inform parents if their children leave campus to receive certain confidential medical services that include abortion, AIDS treatment and psychological analysis, according to an opinion issued by the office of state Attorney General Bill Lockyer.DMV Chief Backs Tax by Mile Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday appointed a new Department of Motor Vehicles director who has advocated taxing motorists for every mile they drive — by placing tracking devices in their cars.Lockyer pushes for law requiring handgun ammo to carry traceable codes Attorney General Bill Lockyer will push for a state law requiring handgun ammunition sold in California to carry a microscopic code that would allow law enforcement to trace bullets back to the buyer.Oakland halts DUI checkpoints after Hispanic leaders complain The Oakland Police Department has halted its use of D-U-I checkpoints after the city’s Hispanic leaders complained that the roadblocks were ensnaring too manyInternet piracy law passed in California California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger approved a state law this week that makes it a criminal offence to anonymously distribute copyrighted material on the internet, the first measure of its kind in the US.SLUG employees were coerced to vote for Newsom The nonprofit San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners illegally spent thousands of taxpayer dollars coercing its low-income workers to vote and campaign for Gavin Newsom during last year’s mayoral race, a city attorney’s investigation found.Calif. Bill Would Ban Smoking in Car with Kids California could be on its way to becoming the first U.S. state to outlaw smoking in cars or trucks that have children inside.Santa Monica bans smoking on beaches The City Council [Santa Monica] voted late Tuesday to make Santa Monica the third and largest California community to ban smoking on its beaches. Berkeley steers toward creating car tax Owners of multiple vehicles would pay more Seeking to squeeze cash out of conspicuous consumers and packrats to help ease its budget crunch, the city of speed bumps and neighborhood traffic barriers is trying to figure out a way to do something unprecedented: tax residents who own multiple cars.Gov. Davis signs controversial sex-ed bill Embattled California Gov. Gray Davis, facing a recall vote next week, signed a controversial bill allowing public schools to teach and survey students on sexual topics without written parental permission.Privacy Law in California Shields Drivers California today adopted the nation’s first law meant to protect the privacy of drivers whose cars are equipped with "black boxes," or data recorders that can be used to gather vital information on how a vehicle is being driven in the last seconds before a crash. The California state Assembly passed a controversial bill yesterday allowing public schools to teach and survey students on sexual topics without written parental permission. A city in Northern California [Arcata] has passed an ordinance that criminalizes cooperation with the USA Patriot Act.
Looking down on frowns
Palo Alto may need to call in the Demeanor Police.School District sued over ‘Day of the Dead’ A public-interest law firm has filed a lawsuit to stop the classroom activities of fourth-graders at a Petaluma, Calif., public elementary school planned in observance of "El Dia de los Muertos" or "Day of the Dead." Instructions on homosexual sodomy and a glorified account of lesbian pedophilia are among the instructional materials approved by the Los Angeles Unified School District for use in "diversity" and "safety" programs being presented to elementary through high school students. Home schooling is under fire in Alameda County, Calif., where four families have been brought before the school attendance review board, or SARB, which is questioning the legality of the existence of home schools.Brave New Schools — X-rated English Class Students in a California high school English class are being shown "highly objectionable, non-curricular materials that inappropriately and graphically deal with perverse sexual and violent subjects," according to the Pacific Justice Institute. |
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