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New Law to Ban School Board’s From Sending Reminders to Vote
The law bans the use of the school's alert system because it targets a particular population.
This article was written and reported by Patch Editor Kaitlin Glanzer.
Parents of students may well remember the robo-calls and emails reminding them to vote in upcoming referendums, which was a simple notification of the date, time and location for voting.
Parents of students may well remember the robo-calls and emails reminding them to vote in upcoming referendums, which was a simple notification of the date, time and location for voting.
Board of Education members across the state credit the system with helping to pass budgets, but a new state law effective July 1 will prohibit school officials from using the system, according to a report in The Day newspaper of New London.
Public Act 13-247 is the law in question, and it only allows community-wide notification systems available to all residents, to send out details about a vote.
Attorney Matthew Ritter explained the law recently to the nearby South Windsor Board of Education Tuesday night in the context of the elementary schools project. PACs and PTOs, as well as individuals are still free to call residents to remind them to vote.
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