Threats to schools in California, buildings often not persecuted

For more than six months, San Diego Lee Lor resident has sent hundreds of emails threatening mass shooting at Shoal Creek elementary school by answering random spam emails.

He was arrested and spent 10 months in prison, but the charges were Fired by a judge last October Since Lor did not indicate a particular individual in his threats, as the law requires persecution.

A week after his release, police raised Lor after they found a loaded firearm in his house and a school card in San Diego, which threatened – less than a mile from his house. Prosecutors have a new case against him, this time claiming that LOR is directed at the headmaster.

These threats prompted the assembly Dardeana PatelDemocrat from San Diego, who had previously been a member of the school council in the area to introduce a bill trying to close the door. Her office has followed at least eight other similar incidents across the country.

“The individual did not threaten any particular individual, but these are the same people who go to work there who attend a school where they let them go there every day,” Patel told Calmatters. “There are specific people in these names and if they do not feel safe, the children do not study.”

San Diego City Council member, Marnie von Wilper, said he remembers hearing from parents who were disappointed and distracted by the district prosecutor’s inability to chase Lor.

“Why can’t you hold this person?”

“I was on the phone with itself (an assistant -circular prosecutor), asking,” Why can’t you hold this person? “And she said,” Because, a member of the Council, California, the Penal Code says of a real criminal threat, you must identify a person you will harm, “von Wilper told Calmatters. “Imagine explaining this to a kindergarten parent. I want to say that this man had a school card. He had access to weapons. It was a very serious threat. ”

Lor’s lawyer said, San Diego Union-Tribune Reported.

The Ptel 237 Assembly Bill adopted the Committee on Public Safety of the Assembly earlier this month and awaits a hearing on the Budget Loan Committee.

But such efforts have failed in recent years as one that would only apply to schools and places of worship And now it has been re -introduced by Senator Susan Rubio. The 2020 bill would do the same, but made the maximum punishment for a minor crime. They both died on the Budget Loan Committee The process of files in the voltagein which hundreds of accounts are delayed without debate.

This year, the legislation is opposed by the Californians, united for a responsible budget, a coalition of groups that seek to reduce the number of people in prisons and prisons, including the Center of Ella Baker, the Asian Law of Asian Law and the Immigrant Law Resource Center.

These groups say it is already a crime to threaten that could lead to death or injury to another person, even if he does not intend to do so.

“This standard served well in California both from the protection of the public from criminal threats, but also to ensure that people were not convicted of the crime of threat, unless the person had any intention of threatening,” the group wrote in a letter to the committee.

Similarly, the analysis of the Committee on Public Safety of the Assembly says that people have been convicted under the current law to postpone threats against groups without setting specific goals.

But Patel is still hoping to close what he sees as a tongue with Bill’s tongue that is closely adapted to focus on the authentic threats.

Can other recent incidents persuade legislators?

In El Dorado County, a man threatened every firefighter in the fire department, personally and by phone. He could not be prosecuted for criminal threats because he did not identify a specific firefighter.

In Orange County, Suspect made a threat from a bomb against a saddle hospitalwhich the facility said it slows down critical operations and emergency care. San Diego police have not made any arrests, although a spokesman said the FBI may be investigated.

In other incidents, someone threatened a movie theater in Hollywood, a threat of bombs forced evacuations at San Francisco International Airport and Professor at City College Freshno was arrested for threat to recording employees, but the allegations were rejected judgeS

Governor Gavin Newo’s service declined to comment on whether he would support the bill.

In 2015, the then government. Jerry Brown vetoed a similar bill that would make a crime threaten the school campusS

“No one could be anything but intolerant of threats to cause major bodily injuries, especially on school grounds,” he writes. But “In recent decades, California has created an unprecedented number of new and detailed criminal laws. Before we continue to apply more, I think we need to pause and think about the fact that our bulging penal code now contains over 5,000 separate provisions, covering almost every possible form of human behavior. “