A California school district cannot require its employees to disclose a student’s sexual orientation or gender identity to their parents, a new law says.
Assembly Bill 1955, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom July 15, became law Jan. 1. The law was challenged in federal court July 16 by Chino Valley Unified School District, which started its own parental notification policy.
The new law says:
An employee or a contractor of a school district, county office of education, charter school, or state special school for the blind or the deaf shall not be required to disclose any information related to a pupil’s sexual orientation, gender identity,
