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| Date: From: Subject: | 4/16/2007 2:36:59 PM Home School Legal Defense Association California: Oppose the Costa Mesa Daytime Curfew! |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== California: Oppose the Costa Mesa Daytime Curfew! Dear HSLDA members and friends, The City of Costa Mesa is considering a daytime curfew, and we need your help to defeat it! A preliminary vote is scheduled for tomorrow. Robyn Nordell, a longtime friend of HSLDA, has been fighting daytime curfews for years. She has asked us to forward the following information to homeschoolers in the Costa Mesa area. -------------------- CONFIDENTIAL Please do NOT contact the City Council to ask any questions about Tuesday's meeting. If you have questions, please contact the organizer, Robyn Nordell at nordell@sbcglobal.net If you live in Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley, Irvine, Newport Beach, Santa Ana or if you frequent Costa Mesa, we need your help now to defeat a renewed attempt to impose daytime curfews. WHAT'S WRONG WITH DAYTIME CURFEWS? Use the link below for more detailed reasons from Roy Hanson: http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000010/200308131.asp Use the link below for HSLDA's "Daytime Curfew: Guilty Until Proven Innocent:" http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000000/00000026.asp Daytime Curfews make it illegal for minors of certain ages to be on any public property (loosely defined) during traditional school hours without a government-approved exemption. All minors in public become possible suspects for breaking this new law. Although called "truancy ordinances," a child does not even need to be legally "truant" in order to be cited! Daytime curfews bypass important due-process rights and protections of both public and private school parents and students which are found within the comprehensive California truancy laws. ACTION ITEM: TUESDAY, APRIL 17 We need you and your teens at the next Costa Mesa City Council meeting To be as successful as possible, we need a room packed with adults and teens in support of our already-chosen speakers. We are all busy people, but we want to stop the daytime curfew idea in Costa Mesa so that other Orange County cities don't consider implementing them! > When: Tuesday, April 17 If possible, arrive at 5:30 p.m.; the meeting begins at 6 p.m. Bring something to read or work on. Our agenda item is one of many, so please come prepared to stay as long as necessary. > Who should come: Costa Mesa residents plus any adults and teens who are often in Costa Mesa--shopping, dining, recreating, attending PE or any type of events or classes, frequenting businesses or homes. > Our stance on the issue: We are pro-law enforcement, but against daytime curfews! Please do not pursue implementing a daytime curfew in Costa Mesa. (Those who are homeschoolers sometimes ask, "Why don't we just try get an exemption for homeschoolers?" To understand why this doesn't work, see point No. 3 on this link: http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000010/200308131.asp . > Our behavior: We will be very respectful, and not adversarial. We believe that several of the City Council members may already be leaning in support of our position. > Location/Directions: Costa Mesa Civic Center is located at 77 Fair Drive, Costa Mesa, 92626. The City Hall is a five-story building, located across the street from the Costa Mesa Fairgrounds. http://www.ci.costa-mesa.ca.us/about/whereis.htm Everyone needs a "No Daytime Curfews" sticker. Lesie, one of our ladies, will be handing out these stickers at the entrance to the City Council chambers. She will only be giving them to people whom she knows, or can identify as being with us. Please quietly tell her that you are an HSLDA member, and she will know that you are with us. > City Council agenda and basics of how meetings are conducted: http://www.ci.costa-mesa.ca.us/council/cagenda.htm (Click on agenda--4/17/07) Note that hand-clapping is on the list of inappropriate behaviors. The City Council will recognize those of us opposing daytime curfews will be recognized by our "No Daytime Curfews" stickers. Negative Lessons Learned by Responsible Young People Living Under Daytime Curfews: 1) All kids are punished because some kids commit crimes or are truant. 2) Students on non-traditional school schedules, but who are not truant, not engaging in suspicious activities, and not committing crimes, need to learn to be prepared at all times to prove to the police that they are doing nothing wrong. 3) Parents and kids who formerly were big supporters of law-enforcement officers often learn to resent these same officers. 4) Worst lesson learned: Since their liberties depend on everyone else's good behavior, their liberties are fragile indeed! -------------------- In the fight for liberty, Darren A. Jones HSLDA Staff Attorney ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> For as little as 27 cents a day... There's not much you can get for 27 cents a day. Why not put your money toward peace of mind for yourself, your family, and their future? 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