Excerpt from Spectrum News "In Focus SoCal"

State Sen. Susan Rubio joins “In Focus SoCal” to discuss some of her priority legislation that she’s introduced so far this legislative session, including access to affordable health food and gun violence in schools. Rubio introduced the Safe Schools and Places of Worship Act on the first day of the current legislative session. Prosecutors across the state have found it difficult to hold people accountable for making criminal threats against schools and places of worship unless they identify a specific person in the threat. SB 19 would address this issue and make it easier to successfully prosecute those who threaten to commit death or great bodily injury to any person on the grounds of a school or place of worship.

“Every time there’s an incident in a school, according to some data we received, each incident is $100,000. Not only is it taking resources away from other critical programs that we can be putting that money into, but what’s happening is it’s creating a community-wide panic,” Rubio said.

“We have parents that are keeping students at home,” she said. “And as a former educator, I can tell you with certainty that every day they’re not in school, they’re losing vital information critical for their education.”

Watch the full interview with Spectrum News here.