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- Once considered tame, even boring, school board meetings have become culture-war battlegrounds in recent years. On dozens of occasions, tensions have escalated into not just shouting matches and threats but also arrests and criminal charges.
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Jul 19, 2023 · School board meetings across the country are fomenting conflicts that have led to violence and arrests. View the Full Series Time and again over the last two years, parents and protesters...
Sep 30, 2021 · School board meetings, usually one of the most mundane examples of local democracy in action, have exploded with vitriol across the country in recent months, and school leaders are scared....
Feb 15, 2022 · REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein. Local school officials across the United States are being inundated with threats of violence and other hostile messages from anonymous harassers nationwide, fueled by...
Jan 8, 2023 · In October 2021, Attorney General Merrick Garland wrote a memo directing the FBI and federal prosecutors to hold meetings nationwide on criminal threats against school personnel. The...
Jul 20, 2023 · At least 59 people were arrested or charged over an 18-month period, from May 2021 to November 2022. Prosecutors dismissed the vast majority of the cases, most of them involving charges of trespassing, resisting an officer, or disrupting a public meeting.
Oct 6, 2021 · The association cited instances of “angry mobs” interrupting school board meetings, leading to some arrests. “Threats against public servants are not only illegal, they run counter to our...
Oct 5, 2021 · In a letter to President Biden, the organization’s leaders outlined instances across the country of school board meetings disrupted, board members threatened, and in one case, a protester...