‘Smear Parents’: Parental Rights Advocates Sound The Alarm As Bill Targeting Parents Moves Through Legislature

California parental rights advocates are sounding the alarm as a bill targeting parents who speak out at school board meetings continues to advance through the state’s legislature.

Senate Bill 596, which would make it a misdemeanor for “any parent, guardian or other person” to disrupt classwork, extracurricular activities or cause any “substantial disorder” at any public or charter school board meeting and state board of education meeting, is poised to pass both the California Senate and House. The bill will silence as well as criminalize parents and in the process, harm children, California parental rights advocates told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“SB 596 is another example of attacks on parental rights and community engagement by Sacramento’s one-party political establishment,” Wenyuan Wu, executive director of Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, a parental rights group, told the DCNF. “Criminalizing contest and dissent in local school districts manufactures false accusations of disorderly conduct when concerned parents exercise their constitutional rights and speak up against woke indoctrination. This bill is shamelessly intended to target, intimidate and smear parents and local community members advocating for better education, transparency and accountability.”