# San Francisco DA Harris expands truancy prosecutions against parents

Date: 2008

## The fact

In 2008 District Attorney [Kamala Harris](/people/kamala-harris) expanded truancy prosecutions, including charging parents of chronically absent children.

## Context

School districts referred cases. Neighbouring crime-lab 2010 is a different DA-office file. She did not sit as every truant officer.

Crime-lab 2010 is neighbouring. Prop 19 2010 is a later AG file.

The Vice President of the United States presides over the Senate, casts tie-breaking votes, and carries delegated [White House](/organizations/white-house) portfolios. She does not write House bills, CBP operational orders, or Federal Reserve rate decisions. A vice president is not co-author of every presidential statute.

## Evidence and sources

San Francisco District Attorney carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is justice and household pressure: a completed policy of prosecuting parents over school absence is a dated coercive instrument.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 2008 expansion of truancy prosecutions under DA Harris, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later graduation coefficient from those charges, or that every later California DA copied the file.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Schools referred. Courts sat. Parents were defendants.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies San Francisco DA Harris expands truancy prosecutions against parents, not a later speech about San Francisco DA Harris expands truancy prosecutions against parents.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. San Francisco DA Harris expands truancy prosecutions against parents on 2008-04-01 is not a licence to treat every later San Francisco District Attorney communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average San Francisco DA Harris expands truancy prosecutions against parents into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to She set charging policy. Schools referred. Courts sat. Parents were defendants. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Kamala Harris: https://factrail.ai/people/kamala-harris

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion
- Household Purchasing Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/household-purchasing-power

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-truancy-idUSTRE5B00N220091201
- https://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/us-harris-truancy-2008