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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.

Source: WorldNetDaily, May 11, 2006

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...

The order states in part: "Undocumented status in itself is not a matter for police action. It is therefore incumbent upon all employees to make the personal commitment to equal enforcement of the law and service to the public regardless of alien status."

Source: WorldNetDaily, May 5, 2006

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.

Source: WorldNetDaily, May 4, 2006

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.

Source: WorldNetDaily, April 21, 2006

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.

Last November, 58 percent of San Francisco voters passed Proposition H, a city ordinance that makes it illegal for residents to possess handguns and prohibits the manufacture, distribution, sale and transfer of firearms in the city.

Inside Bay Area, March 11, 2006

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.

Source: WorldNetDaily, February 23, 2006

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.

Source: WorldNetDaily, February 9, 2006

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.

Source: Local6 TV (online), December 10, 2005

Who owns your kids?

Seven California parents filed a petition with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to set aside its controversial decision declaring they had no right to be "exclusive providers of information about sexual matters."

Ruling on a complaint against a sexually charged student survey, the three-judge panel concluded Nov. 2 parents "have no due process or privacy right to override the determinations of public schools as to the information to which their children will be exposed while enrolled as students."

Source: WorldNetDaily, November 30, 2005

NRA 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.

Source: Fox News, November 13, 2005

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.

Proposition 73 on Tuesday's ballot would require doctors to give a parent or guardian written notice at least 48 hours before performing an abortion on a minor.

Source: Breitbart, November 4, 2005

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.

Source: WorldNetDaily, October 27, 2005

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.

Source: WorldNetDaily, October 15, 2005

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.

Source: WorldNetDaily, October 8, 2005

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.

"I don't see the emergency," San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer said in rejecting a request for an order against the nation's two largest credit card associations. "I don't think there is an immediate threat of irreparable injury" to consumers.

Source: The Washington Post (online), September 23, 2005

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.

The governor wants to prohibit registered sex offenders (search) from living near parks and schools. He also seeks to increase penalties for possession of child pornography, date rapists and using the Internet to lure minors for sex acts.

Source: News Max, August 18, 2005

LAPD Computer Targets Rogue Cops

Dogged by scandal, the Los Angeles Police Department is looking beyond human judgment to technology to identify bad cops.

This month, the agency began using a $35 million computer system that tracks complaints and other telling data about officers -- then alerts top supervisors to possible signs of misconduct.

Source: Wired News, July 23, 2005

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.

Source: FoxNews (online), March 9, 2005

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.

Source: LATimes (online), February 22, 2005

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.

Source: SignOnSanDiego, February 9, 2005

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.

Source: WorldNetDaily, December 3, 2004

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.

Source: Los Angeles Times (online), November 16, 2004

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.

Source: SFGate (online), October 8, 2003

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 many illegal immigrants.

Source: KESQ News (online), ~September 27, 2004

Internet 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.

Source: out-law.com, September 24, 2004

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.

Source: SFGate (online), September 10, 2004

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.

Source: myway (online), April 28, 2004

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.

Source: The Sacramento Bee (online), March 24, 2004

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.

Source: San Francisco Chronicle (online), February 22, 2004

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.

Source: WorldNetDaily, October 4, 2003

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.

Source: New York Times, September 23, 2003

Students get sex-ed without parents OK

The California state Assembly passed a controversial bill yesterday allowing public schools to teach and survey students on sexual topics without written parental permission.

Source: WorldNetDaily, September 10, 2003

City criminalizes USA Patriot Act

A city in Northern California [Arcata] has passed an ordinance that criminalizes cooperation with the USA Patriot Act.

Source: WorldNetDaily, May 19, 2003

Bill would force hiring of cross-dressers

The Democrat-controlled California Assembly passed a bill today mandating fines of up to $150,000 against business owners – including Bible bookstores and nonprofit organizations such as the Boy Scouts – for refusing to hire cross-dressing and transsexual job applicants.

Source: WorldNetDaily, April 21, 2003

Looking down on frowns

Palo Alto may need to call in the Demeanor Police.

The city council is wrestling with a code of conduct that urges elected officials not to roll their eyes. Or shake their heads. Or frown.

Source: The Mercury News (online), April 7, 2003

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."

Source: WorldNetDaily, October 30, 2002

Lawmakers 'sanction' use of district-approved 'porn'

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.

Source: WorldNetDaily, January 24, 2002

Home Education Banned in Berkeley?

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.

Source: WorldNetDaily, June 3, 2000

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.

WorldNetDaily, December 28, 1999

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