Attention California Parents
A letter to all California county and district superintendents was sent out with a 92 page document of doctors who have been “disciplined,” in the state of CA. We are concerned this means that many who have valid reasons for a medical exemptions are no longer exempt.
Please check the list to make sure your exemption is still safe:
The letter:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WxHhNDtsJGwQ9_YXTCkDkhTT03_Lrdtf/view?usp=drivesdk
Document:
https://eziz.org/assets/docs/shotsforschool/2021MBC_OMBCDisciplinedDoctors.pdf
What now?
We know many parents are wondering what their options are now. First, wait until your school notifies you, stating your medical exemption is revoked. Until then, your child may remain in school.
When you receive the letter stating revoke of medical exemption, you have 30 days to request an appeal:
Revoked Medical Exemption Appeal Request
As of right now, your only legal option to educate your children is homeschooling. Below are some resources to homeschooling in CA.
Parenting Resources for Homeschooling in CA
What if my child has an IEP?
If you do NOT have an ME and your child has an IEP that expressly protects their health decisions and options in regards to vaccinations, you are unaffected. If you have trouble with this please refer to https://www.educateadvocateca.com/sb277-iep/
If you have trouble with your IEP, please reach out to Educate Advocate at www.educateadvocateca.com
A timeline for CA Parents
2012 - AB2109 (Click for Bill Text)
2015 - SB277 (Click for Bill Text)
2016 - Charity Dean + Senator Pan Collusion
2019 - SB276 (Click for Bill Text) + Companion Bill SB714 (Click for Bill Text)
More Reading:
Source: A Voice for Choice:
Staunch pro-vaccine Dr. Charity Dean propels herself up the CA Public Health Department Ranks to become CA Vaccine Medical Exemptions CzarSacramento – SB276/714 – the bills which limited the exemption criteria for vaccine injury and put every physicians writing more than 4 a year under the scrutiny of the California Public Health Department - did not appear out of nowhere this year. Dr Charity Dean, friend of Senator Pan1 , planned a multi-year campaign to propel herself up the ranks of the Public Health Department which culminated in her current position where she will oversee the review and revocation of all vaccine medical exemptions under SB276/SB714, leaving hundreds of well-intentioned, legitimate physicians throughout California wrongly discredited in her wake. A Voice for Choice Advocacy urges the Governor, our California State Senators and Assembly Members and the mainstream media to investigate and take action to stop the witch hunt and allow physicians to practice medicine without fear of unwarranted investigation, and specifically to remove Dr Charity Dean from her post until the investigation is complete.
Background: The story starts shortly after the passage of SB277 (Pan) – the bill which left the medical exemption as the only way for a child enroll in private or public school without vaccination. In 2016, Dr Charity Dean, then Director of the Santa Barbara Department of Public Health (SBDPH), ran an aggressive campaign to capture the private physician information of children with medical exemptions in her county. A 2016 Public Records Act Request (CPRA) by A Voice for Choice Advocacy confirmed there was collusion between her, key public health officers, CDPH and the California Medical Board to proactively gather information on physicians writing medical exemptions under SB277, for the sole purpose of filing Medical Board complaints against them.234 A few months ago, Leigh Dundas, attorney for Advocates for Physicians’ Rights, held a press conference5 , based on the same CPRA information, outlining the apparent cover-up engaged in by these professionals, including how to avoid fallout from a “Public Records Act request by co-opting their County Council County Attorneys offices to open permanent ongoing investigations against these minor children's medical physicians” which they would never close and thereby allowing them never to be revealed. Dr. Charity Dean promoted her Medical Exemption Pilot Program on a July 7,, 2016 teleconference to all 58 local county Public Health Officers on the call6 . It was initially co-opted by 5 counties, but is now a statewide initiative, that commanded county Public Health Officers to request school nurses and administrators to send them all medical exemptions for review. Public health officers were dispatched to audit schools who did not comply with the request. The redaction of personal student information due to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) was of no consequence to Dr. Charity Dean and her co-conspirators because all they were interested in were the physicians’ names. What resulted was an unofficial statewide database of medical exemption writing physicians.