FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
JUDGE TO ENTRAPPED AUTISTIC VICTIM, CASE DISMISSED!
November 5, 2015
TEMECULA, CA – Only 2 days before his 21st birthday and 4 months after the devastating death of his steadfast champion and father, Doug Snodgrass, Jesse Snodgrass - the autistic student who made national headlines with his high school entrapment story, had his case against the Temecula Unified School District thrown out by Judge Raquel A. Marquez.
Read the decision here: JUDGE'S DECISION.
The plaintiffs in this case feel extremely disappointed and perplexed that the judge did NOT allow this matter to be decided by a jury, adding that there existed triable issues of material fact as to Michael Hubbard’s - TVUSD dir. of Child Welfare and Attendance - involvement with the operation and whether he targeted Jesse, among other triable issues. They feel that the judge WEIGHED the evidence which is not the court's role on Summary Judgement and justified the ruling based on "police cooperation and discretionary immunities" that the plaintiffs continue to assert do NOT apply. According to the plaintiffs, there did exist several inconsistencies in the decision and they plan to appeal.
Many questions and discrepancies arise here:
Does our American democratic process actually exist or do judges assume the role of jury?
•The judges decision states that Jesse had “cough medicine” when drug-sniffing dogs were alerted to his backpack - at a different school five months before Operation Glasshouse - however, it was a single cough drop.
Does student safety and protection apply in our courts?
•Despite the fact that the district knew that Jesse was on mood stabilizing medication, parents were NOT informed of the morning arrest. They discovered it when he did not come home from school that day and he was jailed without his medication until parents notified the Juvenile Detention Center.
Are special education students with IEPs and BSPs protected under these legal contracts when specific items are outlined to protect them from bullying and harassment in schools?
•When TVUSD failed to provide Jesse’s requisite mental health services, he was left to fend for himself when an undercover officer was placed in his classroom, causing him severe anxiety, led him to self-injure (burned his arm at school).
Did TVUSD intend to have Jesse arrested AGAIN?
•How did TVUSD create an after school class for only one student, Jesse, and ultimately NOT inform him, to which Jesse was marked truant at the time of his court-ordered probationary period? Truancy often leads to arrest.
Does transparency exist in our public school system, or do administrators get to hide behind discretionary immunities?
•It seems as if Child Welfare and Attendance Admins are permitted to operate covertly with our children.
How does TVUSD define Child Welfare?
• Could it be that Michael Hubbard, dir of Child Welfare and Attendance, given carte-blanche to work with children operates as a biased official - compiling records, profiling & ultimately targeting kids he thinks are a problem?
Public tax dollars pay for not only the salaries, but the extremely expensive legal protection that School Administrators, who hide behind the law, have been taking full advantage of. Free-reign without accountability is Autocracy, granted to any public school official is dangerous and often ends in repugnant abuse of our children.
More:
Rolling Stone - The Entrapment of Jesse Snodgrass
VICE - The War on Kids
TEMECULA: Hubbard honored by state school resource officer assocation
LA Times -South Carolina Student Thrown from Desk by SRO officer
Riverside Lawyer 2013 Mock Trial Winners
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