In 2019, old video footage surfaced that some commentators said showed Kamala Harris 'boasting' and 'laughing' about prosecuting poor parents — especially one homeless woman — for the truancy of their children. We investigated the controversy:
for confronting parents with the potential legal consequences of allowing their children to miss school, as well as occasionally imposing criminal penalties.
So to that end...I sent a letter out on my letterhead, to every parent in the school district, outlining the connection that was statistically proven, between elementary school truancy, high school dropouts, who will become a victim of crime and who will become a perpetrator of crime. We sent it out to everyone. A friend of mine actually called me and he said"Kamala, my wife got the letter. She freaked out.
"The picture began to brighten. At one high school, overall attendance among the one hundred students in the [District Attorney] mediation program improved 40 percent. At another elementary school, we saw a 75 percent drop in the number of chronically absent students. Along the way, we learned some things about the situations some of these families faced and found we could help.
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