By Chelsea Janes Chelsea Janes Reporter covering the 2020 presidential campaign Email Bio Follow April 17 at 7:12 PM Sen. Kamala D. Harris, the former California attorney general whose prosecutorial record is drawing criticism from some as overly harsh, expressed “regret” on Wednesday for a truancy program she implemented and said she would not support expanding nationally if she becomes president.
On Wednesday, speaking on the left-leaning podcast Pod Save America, Harris lamented what she called “unintended consequences” of the policy — in other words, that the policy was never intended to criminalize parents, just motivate them to ensure their children attended school — and distanced herself from the detentions that resulted from it.
When asked, Harris defends the policy by citing her rationale: She commissioned a study of homicide victims under 25 and found 90 percent of them were high school dropouts. She determined that habitually truant elementary school students were more likely to drop out of high school, so she designed a policy to get kids back to school.
As attorney general, Harris issued a 2013 report on truancy that suggested parents be “imprisoned for truancy violations in only the most extreme cases — it is both traumatic for children and families and costly for taxpayers.”
Regret huh? Gee thats strongly worded..... I'm convinced
I live here in San Francisco-“the big stick” comments & political capital mindset gets even bigger in the big White House -no thank you 🙅🏿♂️
somebody should tell her supporters because ever time I've criticized that policy, they insist it was the best thing since sliced bread, perfect in every way.
I regret things when they mean I don’t get to be president too
So we're just going to ignore her book and her .org?
be_weeeeee how does it feel to be fucking wrong
As well she should, but we know she’s only saying this now because it’s hurting her chances to be in charge of mass incarceration for the entire country.
Actually she didn't.
I'm guessing she regrets the policy less than the parents and children she damaged for life regret it!
not good enough
Garbage take by a garbage newspaper.
Translation: It was the right thing to do but my campaign is failing and I need apology approvals
Can anybody ever defend his or her records? You can change your minds when the facts changed. The only that is changing her mind is because she wants people votes: that is not leadership.
'Kamala Harris expresses regret for everything she's ever done, promises to do differently as president.' Wink wink.
Holding parents accountable for kids getting to school (what a notion) to point of criminalizing them was a popular, desperate attempt by schools to reduce absenteeism, increase graduation rate. A lazy, mean approach, but no need to assemble the firing squad.
She should
At least she has publicly showed accountability..
Regret?! Hmmm not outrage?
Already apologizing? She's done. Just another fake Democrat exposed.
Lol. Sure she does. Pandering and pathetic.
Nope. It’s all over. Kamala is going down faster than a young ladder-climber going down on sugar daddy Willie Brown to advance her career...
The assumptions hidden in these gaslighting stories speak louder than what's 'news'. Always need to ask, not just what's said, but why do they say it.
Gm ADOS
TRUMP SEXUALLY ASSAULTED 23 WOMEN WHERES THAT STORY
Took her long enough. Too little too late. How about not being evil in the first place?
vast majority of people who are called out for doing something they extensively planned and executed say they are 'sorry' ... before called out ... quite proud of accomplishment
Why you gotta clickbait? That ain't what she said.
Video footage of her laughing while explaining her decision to get tough on truancy went viral the moment she announced her candidacy.
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