Press Release

Children’s Health Defense CA / Advocates for Faith & Freedom / Tyler & Bursch, LLP
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Contact: Desaré Ferraro at 951-600-2733 (office) or 714-348-0808 (cell)
dferraro@tylerbursch.com

For Immediate Release 06/22/2021, Los Angeles, California – Children's Health Defense California (CHD-CA) and Southern California Law Firm Tyler & Bursch, LLP filed a complaint in U.S. District Court on behalf of their clients, parents seeking to bar Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and Los Angeles County officials from continuing to implement certain mandates on their children as a requirement for them to return to in-person learning. This is the first lawsuit of its kind filed in California Federal Court regarding the targeting of school children with illegal and unnecessary COVID mandates.

These parents’ refusal to submit to routine, invasive PCR testing of their children; the forced downloading and use of the Microsoft app “Daily Pass” to collect and disseminate their children’s private health data; and the covering of their children’s faces all day while in school has resulted in LAUSD excluding their healthy children, and thousands of other healthy children, from attending school.

The lawsuit alleges that LAUSD and County protocols are discriminatory and exclusionary by design and have zero basis in law or science. In many instances, the effects of these protocols are most heavily borne by the same traditionally disadvantaged communities and individuals who have been denied equal access for generations. LAUSD has created an educational apartheid system that arbitrarily and without justification excludes healthy children from participating in school. This lawsuit will demonstrate how and why this kind of discrimination is flatly illegal and unconstitutional.

“California's constitutional guarantee of a child's right to a public education cannot be conditioned upon parents relinquishing their rights to protect their children's health, well-being and privacy,” said Kristina Heuser, Constitutional Attorney for Tyler & Bursch and Advocates for Faith & Freedom.

CHD-CA President Alix Mayer added, “The Daily Pass program is built around products – PCR tests and face masks – that are not approved, and therefore cannot be mandated. Further, the weight of the scientific evidence does not support future approval of these products for the uses for which they are being mandated. With federal law on this subject as clear as it is, we have a strong case that this discriminatory program violates both federal and state law and is unconstitutional.”

For comment, contact Desaré Ferraro at dferraro@tylerbursch.com, office: 951-600-2733, cell: 714-348-0808.

About Children's Health Defense California: The California Chapter of Children’s Health Defense is devoted to the health of people and our planet. Our mission is to end childhood health epidemics by working aggressively to eliminate harmful exposures, hold those responsible accountable, and establish safeguards so this never happens again. (ca.childrenshealthdefense.org.)

About Tyler & Bursch, LLP (www.tylerbursch.com): With offices in Murrieta and Irvine CA, Tyler & Bursch’s attorneys have been litigating civil liberties cases for more than 25 years in federal and state court. Tyler & Bursch provides pro-bono legal support through the non-profit legal organization, Advocates for Faith & Freedom (www.faith-freedom.com).