rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/petition/police-free-schools-in-salem-keizer-school-district?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-petition-area-police-free-schools-in-salem-keizer-school-district' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Latinos Unidos Siempre https://actionnetwork.org/groups/latinos-unidos-siempre https://actionnetwork.org//images/generic_facebook.jpg During an official meeting a School Board member, Paul Kyllo, wore a Black face mask for more than an hour and a half. The School Board member, a white man, held the mask up throughout the meeting as a stunt to ‘make a point’ about voting security during the COVID-19 crisis. The official video of the meeting came to the attention of community members just a week and a half after approximately 70 people testified before the board calling for police-free schools. The board will vote on whether to end the racist practice of having police in schools on June 23rd.   Now young people are asking: how can a school board with such disregard for Black and brown lives be trusted to protect them by removing police from schools? The community asks for your support in calling on the district to remove police from schools, for the school board member involved to resign, and for all the other officials present to issue a clear apology. We demand that our school district divests all the funds that go into police in schools to improve education. FIRST, THE SALEM KEIZER SCHOOL DISTRICT MUST TERMINATE ALL CONTRACTS WITH THE SALEM POLICE DEPARTMENT, KEIZER POLICE DEPARTMENT AND MARION COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE THAT PLACES POLICE IN SCHOOLS. The district must invest in the supports and resources young people need to thrive.   Police in the Salem Keizer School District have supported the school-to-prison-and-deportation pipeline and increasing criminalization of Black and Brown students. We must not support the systems that kill Black and Brown people. Now is the time to create police free schools in Salem-Keizer School District. https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/police-free-schools-in-salem-keizer-school-district