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FAC Requests John Ortega, Orange School Board President, Retract Statement About Recall Effort

February 6, 2024
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Today, FAC sent the following letter to John Ortega, President of the Orange Unified School District (OUSD) Board of Education, asking him to retract a comment he made at the January 18 school board meeting. At that meeting, Ortega, referring to certain flyers related to a recall campaign of two school board members that contained “school photos,” said, “That is completely inappropriate spreading misinformation about OUSD sponsoring such a thing,” and stated, “We are looking at this from a legal perspective.”

The letter points out that Ortega’s “veiled threats of legal action against core political speech undermine the First Amendment and attack the foundation of democracy.”

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