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Written by Sarah dreams of beans on 2025-01-18 at 06:10

Are people paying attention to the attempted police power-grab happening in #VictoriaBC ?

They have been trying to get the Ministry of Education to fire our elected school board and force police liaison officers into schools, over the objection of the Human Rights Commissioner and the local Teachers Association. That's a local issue that would not stay a local precedent-- anyone in BC can call the Minister about this!

https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/no-police-liaisons-could-soon-mean-no-job-for-sd61-board-members

[#]BCPol #BCPoli #ACAB #AllCatsAreBeautiful

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Written by Sarah dreams of beans on 2025-01-18 at 06:15

The #SD61 school board's recent letters to the Ministry of Education are incredible:

https://www.sd61.bc.ca/news-events/news/title/board-letters-jan17/

"We must express in the strongest terms how entirely inappropriate it is for the leaders of

municipal police departments or local RCMP detachments to declare their unwillingness to

work with a democratically-elected body, simply because the police disagree with a policy

decision squarely within the scope of that body’s statutorily-assigned responsibilities."

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Written by Sarah dreams of beans on 2025-01-18 at 06:17

This seems like a good time to use my favourite telephone activism method: leave a mean voicemail for someone (the Minister of Education), and then leave several supportive voicemails for other people (the school board, the Victoria Coalition of Parent Advisory Councils, and the Greater Victoria Teachers' Association)

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Written by Sarah dreams of beans on 2025-01-18 at 07:41

Going to take this opportunity to share an FOI investigation about how school liaison officers actually spent their time in schools in 2017, right before the program ended:

https://www.needsmorespikes.com/blog/2019/11/keeping-police-out-of-victoria-and-esquimalt-schools

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