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Mar 28, 2019 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Thread: I hate to RT clickbait, but EDITORIALS like this are a perfect example of why contemporaneous reporting is key in evaluating stories. The articles surrounding the arrest of Ms. Peoples provide a very different context than this piece.
Peoples is presented as the human toll of KAMALA's "crusade", yet contemporaneous reports indicate the arrest was part of OC's GRIP initiative. The program had been active for FIVE yrs (3 yrs before the so-called Kamala bill) and prosecuted 11ppl.

ocregister.com/2013/04/19/kee…
Interestingly enough, the contemporaneous article provides examples of people helped by the OCs GRIP program. 10,000 people (students/parents/law enforcement/school personnel) were involved in the program yet 11 people (0.11%).
ocregister.com/2013/04/19/kee…
The huffpo editorial buries the admission that the OC DA in Peoples' case may have had his own political motives. Yet still asserts that culpability rests with Kamala for the independent judgement and jurisdiction DAs exercised and had been empowered to do so since the 70s.
What happened to Peoples is awful. Although her case was dismissed the legal battle was obviously distressing. To place the blame on Kamala though is totally disingenuous.
The editorial also only mentions Kamala didn't "get everything she wanted" in terms or truancy reforms, but fails to mention the reforms that she did get pushed through. Worth the read.
oag.ca.gov/news/press-rel…
I've seen many editorials on Kamala and truancy, yet 0 examination and only 1 mention of the Bureau of Children's Justice she created. At a minimum shouldn't this get as much ink as truancy editorials?
oag.ca.gov/news/press-rel…
For the record, the "Kamala law" has a name. It is Senate Bill 1317 Truancy. It passed with 64% in CA Senate and 77% in CA Assembly. Gov. Schwarzenegger signed the law. Note from the editorial the volume of charges brought under the old law vs this. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVote…

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