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Oct 17, 2020 · Kamala Harris's record as a prosecutor had come under a lot of scrutiny even before she was named as Joe Biden's running mate. So how has she addressed this program?
May 14, 2019 · 3K. Sen. Kamala Harris acknowledges that a 2010 state truancy law she sponsored resulted in some parents being jailed. But she misleadingly claims that jailing parents was an “unintended...
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Aug 13, 2020 · Kamala Harris' record as a prosecutor in California is once again open to scrutiny now that she is Joe Biden's running mate.
Feb 7, 2019 · A decade-old anti-truancy program that threatened parents with prosecution if their kids missed school is coming back to haunt Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.
Aug 13, 2020 · Kamala Harris' record as a prosecutor in California is once again open to scrutiny now that she is Joe Biden's running mate. One particularly contentious part of her record is her years-long campaign against truancy. That is when a child is chronically absent from school without an approved reason.
Aug 11, 2020 · In a May 12, 2019, interview on CNN’s “ State of the Union,” Harris acknowledged that a 2010 state truancy law she sponsored resulted in some parents being jailed. But she misleadingly claimed...
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Molly Redden, a senior politics reporter with HuffPost, about Kamala Harris' years-long campaign against truancy in California and why it remains controversial.
