In a recent email sent:
Homeschools Protected From Inspections
JOINT LEGISLATIVE NEWSFLASH – November 8, 2017
From: Mike Smith -- HSLDA and Roy Hanson and Nathan Pierce -- Family Protection Ministries
All Private Homeschools Protected From Mandatory Inspections
A Very Encouraging Victory!
Early versions of AB 10 would have required agents of the California Department of Education (CDE) to inspect all bathrooms in homes where private homeschooling takes place to ensure that all female students have access to state mandated feminine hygiene products. This would have set a dangerous precedent by requiring families to be questioned and observed, through the inspection process, inside the constitutionally
protected privacy of their homes. During these inspections, agents of the CDE would have been required to walk through the homes of every private homeschooling family in California. This would open the opportunity for making observations and developing concerns unrelated to the immediate requirements of this bill. These CDE agents could then report their concerns, resulting from these observations, to their supervisors and to
their County Offices of Education. Regulations governing operating procedures, regulatory standards, and further details would have inevitably followed this bill.
From AB 10 - 12/5/16
"The department [CA Dept. of Education] ... shall ensure that female pupils have direct access to feminine hygiene products in school bathrooms."
These inspections would be a clear violation of our right to privacy that is protected by the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution. Our founders fought dearly to protect this right and it is an essential pillar upon which our nation was founded.
See https://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000000/00000072.asp for more information.