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2/5 Objective material facts: Kamala Harris, as San Francisco District Attorney, PROSECUTED and obtained numerous CONVICTIONS under the then existing truancy laws.👮♀️ #KHIAC sfgate.com/news/article/S…
3/5 During her tenure as California Attorney General, Kamala Harris personally championed SB1317 which enhanced truancy penalties. District Attorneys in other cities used the law Harris pushed to lock many hapless parents up—for up to 180 days! 👮♀️ #KHIAC washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
4/5 Liberals dismissing this are callous and cruel because they overlook how these misdemeanor criminal convictions Top Cop Kamala Harris encouraged will now haunt these luckless parents in terms of employment, housing, student loans, obtaining social services, etc. 👮♀️ #KHIAC
5/5 On top of sadling parents with misdemeanors, the truancy law Kamala Harris championed "has no provision for children who have medical problems, or special education children with emotional or behavioral issues." — Daniel R. Perlman, Esq. danielperlmanlaw.com/blog/2014/10/c… 👮♀️ #KHIAC
The Human Costs Of Kamala Harris’ War On Truancy huffpost.com/entry/kamala-h…
Postscript 1/2: Liberals both frame truancy from a right-wing perspective, and insist on imposing punitive "solutions" (e.g. convictions, fines, prison, etc.). The following tweet addresses both of those issues: 👮♀️ #KHIAC
2/2 For every 🍩centrist saying "whatabout" the services and interventions #KamalaHarris' policy provided for before pursuing criminal convictions? We should respond services and interventions are great, but the last resort should be restorative justice, NOT criminalization! 👮♀️
