Parents Go After Platkin
Return of the Jedi
If you haven’t heard, Andrew Platkin, the New Jersey State Attorney General is suing 4 school districts for requiring staff to be transparent with parents about child name changes and gender identity. Governor Murphy believes parents are too stupid to know if their child changes their name or gender identity so the school must keep it a secret from you. It all started with Hanover township…
The NJ State AG Attacks BOE and Parental Rights
Hanover Township BOE did the right thing. This Tuesday they passed a resolution to require school staff to notify parents of their children’s gender identity and sexual orientation. And for doing the right thing for parents, and supporting our right to protect and support our children, the
Now things have shifted. The Pacific Justice Institute submitted a motion to intervene on behalf of parental rights organization, New Jersey Family Policy Center. Press release below.
Attorney General Matt Platkin’s meritless civil rights violation against Hanover Board of Education must not be resolved without the profound issue of parental rights being represented in the case.
Trenton, New Jersey: The Pacific Justice Institute, a legal non-profit that defends – without charge – the religious freedoms, parental rights, and other civil liberties of individuals, has filed a motion to intervene in the Attorney General’s complaint filed in the Division of Civil Rights (“DCR”) against the Hanover Board of Education. Shawn Hyland, Director of Advocacy for New Jersey Family Policy Center– a pro-family organization that protects the freedom of parents to speak and act according to their faith, is listed as the intervener.
On May 17, 2023, Attorney General Matt Platkin filed the DCR complaint and concurrently filed for injunctive relief in Superior Court. Judge Minkowitz issued a temporary injunction and instructed both sides to negotiate. On June 6, 2023, Hanover School Board voted to repeal their original policy but immediately replaced it with a new policy (also #8463) which removed the specific references to gender identity characteristics but continued the intent to notify parents of issues of concern involving their children. On June 12, 2023, the NJ Attorney General again challenged the Board’s revised policy, seeking to continue to restrain the replacement policy's implementation and assert that the parental rights policy violates the Law Against Discrimination.
Since then, AG Matt Platkin has filed civil rights violations against three more school districts, Marlboro, Middletown, and Manalapan, for their parental notification policies regarding a student’s mental health and social and emotional well-being regarding the student’s asserted gender identity. On June 26th, AG Platkin and Commissioner of Education Dr. Angelica Allen-McMillan issued a statement targeting school boards to stop passing parental notification policies. On June 27th, the Colts Neck Board of Education tabled the second reading and final vote on their policy as they await the outcome of the Attorney General’s cases against the other Monmouth County school districts.
The New Jersey Family Policy Center (NJFPC) meets all the criteria for being granted an intervenor status in the Hanover Board of Education case. The organization is strongly interested in the outcome of any action related to the AG’s allegation of a civil rights violation against school boards. Hanover BOE does not adequately represent the interest of parents statewide whose rights and children are directly impacted by any action. To deny the NJFPC would impede the ability of parents of public school students to protect their fundamental rights. The motion to intervene is timely and relevant to the process.
“The Attorney General’s attempt to force school districts to keep a secret shadow medical file on children inaccessible to their parents is a serious violation of parental rights. Parents must be included in all matters involving their children’s mental health and social and emotional well-being. That is the only way to keep them safe. We urge him to honor the roles and responsibilities of parents in raising their children.”
Shawn Hyland, Director of Advocacy, New Jersey Family Policy Center
“Education and care for children are incapable of being entirely delegated to others or, in this instance, usurped by others. In this case, the governor, through the Attorney General’s office, directly interferes with parents' fundamental rights to care for their children. Keeping parents uninformed about their children's mental, physical, and emotional state is a total overstepping of the government through public schools. Parents need to keep fighting against this dangerous agenda.”
Allan Wright, Executive Director, New Jersey Family Policy Center
The Pacific Justice Institute and the New Jersey Family Policy Center anticipates Judge Minkowitz will grant their request to be a party in the case to satisfy parents’ demand for fair representation.
Media Contact:
Karyn White Esq, kwhite@pji.org
Shawn Hyland, (908) 561-2015, shyland@njfpc.org
Thank you Shawn Hyland! I can’t wait to see all of the other districts suing our state attorney general!!!
Little does Andrew Platkin know, there are OTHER New Jersey districts who have already made similar changes AND there are districts who are about to make similar changes to The Transgender Policy that will require parents to be informed about the medical conditions of their children that are discovered by the school. We hope Platkin has fun in his a bizarre game of Whack-a-Mole, trying to figure out which of the 600+ districts went against the Mighty Murphy. All districts have different language that attack this issue from multiple positions, therefore, Platkin will be so busy fighting parents with paperwork, he will have less time for fighting actual crime in the State of New Jersey.
Glad to hear about all this. I hope this helps all other districts who are not fighting for their children. It needs to go statewide
The questions is, why are we continuing to allow these schools to still teach any and all of this pornography, trans, etc, why? What has to happen to get this taken out of our state. We will have more children with mental issues and deep sex issues if this whole agenda is not stopped.
You would think Platkin’s time would be better spent investigating why 10,000+ seniors and vets were unnecessarily slaughtered in long term care facilities.