Summary: Tom Torlakson, California’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, released guidelines for parents and guardians to report allegations of child abuse, in addition to supporting mandatory reporting training for educators in California.  Protection of children is a critical requirement in our schools, and California’s top educator is pressing the issue in Sacramento.  There’s more to...

Summary: Scientific study proves that victims of child sexual abuse also suffer physiological effects along with permanent emotional scarring.  Jim Beall did right by proposing Senate Bill 131; it did better by making it to Gov. Brown despite heavy lobbying against the bill by California Republicans and the Catholic Church.  The bill, vetoed by...