Kamala Harris once supported a law that threatened to jail parents if their children skipped school. Now she’s expressing regret.
Sen. Kamala Harris is expressing regret for championing a truancy law during her time as California attorney general that threatened parents with prosecution if their children missed too much school.that aired Tuesday, the Democratic presidential candidate said it “never was the intention” to criminalize parents and described the California law as one with “unintended consequences.
Since she joined the race for the White House in January, the California senator has come under scrutiny for her law-and-order background, which some Democrats are wary of as the party faces questions of how it will handle criminal justice reform heading into 2020. As the Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements took off, tensions arose within blocs of liberal voters about the role of law enforcement in the United States. Harris presents her experience as a prosecutor as a strength in this area, but she also faces criticism from some who say that she aligned herself too closely with law enforcement during her political ascent.
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