CalMatters: A loophole in California law makes it hard to prosecute threats against schools. Will lawmakers close it?

Those threats prompted Assemblymember Darshana Patel, a Democrat from San Diego who previously served as a school board member in that district, to introduce a bill trying to close the loophole. Her office has tracked at least eight other similar incidents statewide. “The individual didn’t threaten any specific individual, sure, but it’s the same individuals that go to work there, that attend school there, whose parents drop them off every day there,” Patel told CalMatters. “There are specific people in these named spaces, and if they don’t feel safe, the children, they’re not learning.”