“She hadn’t even gotten her coat off when four cops came to the house.”
Elsa Hackel was 9 and walked home from the library. Four police officers showed up to berate her parents. Another family got a Child Protective Services visit because an 8-year-old played one house down from home. Four states have passed laws saying that is not neglect, unanimously in Utah and Colorado. It takes a statute to let a kid walk to the library.