“When the safety of a child does not meet a legislative priority, that’s a head-scratcher for me. I think being sympathetic to the offender is on the wrong side of this issue.”
California built a misconduct database in 2025 and specifically wrote teachers out of it. Bus drivers and janitors get tracked. The state licensing agency has not pulled credentials from at least 67 educators found to have sexually harassed students, and at least 14 of them were hired somewhere else. That is two attempts and two failures at a searchable list the state has every technical means to build.