PERK and San Diego First Responders set to win lawsuit as San Diego City Council votes to rescind mandate.

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PRESS RELEASE

January 24, 2023

PERK LAWSUIT HEADS TOWARDS VICTORY AGAINST THE CITY OF SAN DIEGO ON BEHALF OF HUNDREDS OF FIREFIGHTERS, POLICE OFFICERS AND CITY EMPLOYEES

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE IN SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 24, 2023- 

Today, January 24, 2023, the San Diego City Council voted unanimously to end the vaccination mandate. This mandate was forcibly imposed on all the City Employees and First Responders.  The official end of the mandate is only a few weeks away.  In two weeks, there will be a second reading of the vote by the San Diego City Council.  PERK heads toward another victory, which is a victory for all Californians in the fight for freedom.

One year ago, on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, the Protection of the Educational Rights of Kids (PERK), representing hundreds of Firefighters, Police Officers, City Employees and three individually named plaintiffs; Jonathan Wiese, Captain Justus Norgood, and Captain Manuel Del Torro, filed a lawsuit against the City of San Diego, in the Superior Court of the State of California,  for declaratory and injunctive relief, against the unconstitutional vaccine mandate against all first responders and city employees.

Attorney John Howard declared, “The City of San Diego has taken the wise path of affirming that liberty is the greatest American value. It is what unites us as Americans. This is not a victory for any individual. It is a victory for freedom. But the greatest credit goes to our clients whose fortitude and courage has been in the greatest traditions of American integrity.”

Plaintiffs contend that their freedom to make their own decisions regarding the vaccines, the freedom to maintain their own bodily autonomy, and to protect themselves from being forced to take a medical procedure as a condition of employment, is of utmost importance and prompted them to take legal action.

PERK President Amy Bohn stated, “We knew we could win. As we head towards this victory, it’s historic and shows the resilience of the people to fight back to preserve their inalienable rights and freedoms.  I am incredibly proud of the plaintiffs, who as fearless leaders in their community, were willing to put their name on the line for all.  We are grateful for the S.D.P.O.A who also supported our fight on behalf of their members.  Our attorneys have relentlessly battled this case for a year and will undoubtedly win in our court trial in March.  The rescinding of the mandate is the city capitulating to our lawsuit, which has put enormous pressure on them.”

Bohn continued, “We knew the city’s vaccine mandate order should be declared void because the City didn’t have the power to issue it in the first place and because the mandate is arbitrary.  The mandate was always unconstitutional as it violated fundamental privacy rights under the California Constitution. The City of San Diego issued the mandate disregarding the science and violation of bodily autonomy as protected by Federal and State discrimination laws, privacy rights and the Nuremberg code.  Individuals have a right to privacy under the California Constitution, and the right to protect their bodily integrity.”

PERK’s original court trial date was set for January 2023. It was continued to March in 2023 because the judge could not hear the motions.  The hearing was then rescheduled to March of 2023. PERK’s lawsuit is still proceeding, and we anticipate developments.

PERK has filed many lawsuits in the state and is confident that the pressure of the litigation will result in the other cities such as Los Angeles, Beverly Hills and San Francisco to also follow suit and remove their mandates.  The mandates should never have existed in the first place.  The illegality of them will cause the law to prevail.  PERK has been instrumental in influencing and leading historic victories in California in other lawsuits and against anti-parental rights bills like SB866 in 2022.

PERK and the PERK plaintiffs are represented by Attorney John Howard and Attorney Scott J. Street of JW Howard/ Attorneys, Ltd.

ABOUT PERK 

Protection of the Educational Rights of Kids:  PERK is a California 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation whose mission is to advocate for medical freedom, bodily autonomy, children’s rights, parental rights, civil rights and protect children’s right to an education. PERK has over 30,000 members throughout California, consisting of public employees, first responders, and parents of children attending school, grades K through 12, in California. PERK has filed this complaint against San Diego City, in addition to its other lawsuits against Los Angeles County, Granada Hills Charter, The City of Beverly Hills, Conejo Valley School District, and others.

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We say goodbye to 2022.

A Special End of the Year Message from PERK President Amy Bohn.

PERK President Amy Bohn.

Hooray, we finished 2022 with major victories!
We had an incredible year and we couldn’t have done it without you.

But it wasn’t easy…

2022 has indeed been an epic battle. When California faced some of the worst, most extreme times, PERK did not back down. Instead, PERK took on the challenge and showed tremendous leadership in California and across the country. Because of donor support, PERK's efforts have produced result after result, lawsuit victories, mandates have been delayed, dropped, and pushed back. A few of our accomplishments in 2022 are listed below:
PERK Accomplishments 

• 1.3 million+ Social Media Reach 

• Funded multiple Lawsuits leading to the protection of 6,000,000 school age children. View lawsuits at https://www.perk-group.com/lawsuits

• Saved 35,000 from being kicked out of in person school in LA

• Delayed mandates in multiple cities and counties, preserving tens of thousands of jobs

• 300 advocacy meetings with Influencers

• 800,000 actions taken through citizens engagement

• 100,000 Educational Resources provided to people in need

• 130,000 educational postcards sent to constituents in Assembly Member Districts

• Educational presentations to over 1,000,000 

• Reached audience of 20,000,000 through TV, newspaper, interviews & more

• Successfully educated and brought awareness to over 10 bad bills heard during the 2022 legislative season in California.

• Launched Liberty Series with Godspeak and featured speakers such as Dr. Peter McCullough, Del Bigtree and Dr. Joe Ladapo.

As we enter 2023, we need your help more than ever to continue to hold the line to protect children, families, and parental rights, to protect your right to work, travel, and live in society, to preserve medical freedom and bodily autonomy, and protect the citizens of California from unconstitutional mandates and Government overreach.

Stay tuned

We have some great things in store for next year so stay tuned for announcements in January!  

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Please consider making a year-end tax-deductible donation today, to support our efforts as we advocate for the protection of all children. 

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Children's Education & Medical Freedom

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By John Leake

In his 1835 book, Democracy in America (a classic of political history and philosophy) the French author Alexis de Tocqueville observed that America’s genius at preserving freedom against tyranny was rooted in its culture of creating and maintaining free political associations. His chapter “On the Use That the Americans Make of Association in Civil Life,” is as relevant today as ever.

In recent years, all over the country, we have seen free associations formed by MOTHERS for the purpose of defending us from assorted tyrants, oligarchs, and syndicates who have asserted their dominance over public affairs and official policy. Women who are deeply invested in their children’s futures seem far more alert than men are to threats posed by antagonistic parties and individuals. Perhaps this is because (generally speaking) men who succeed in their professional lives think of their prosperity as a barometer of our wellbeing as a society and country as a whole. As long as they are earning well, they tend to dismiss reports of social breakdown as exaggerated. Not so with mothers, who quickly recognize the predators among us.

Soon after SARS-CoV-2 arrived in March 2020, I sensed that the official pandemic response was going to do far more harm to the mental and physical health of schoolchildren than the virus ever could. Soon it became clear that COVID-19 was a heavily risk-stratified illness that posed little threat to kids. Thus, the school closures and mask mandates had little to do with protecting children. Why exactly public officials took these measures is a matter of investigation and debate, though it seems clear that Teachers Unions had a strong hand in it.

One year before SARS-CoV-2 arrived, a group of mothers joined together to fight California Senate Bill 276. Their objective was to protect their children’s right to medical freedom and their right to attend school. For those unfamiliar with this legislation, SB 276 (passed in 2015) eliminated all non-medical exemptions for immunizations required for school entry. This was, in effect, a legal precedent for the state to mandate vaccine passports for all kinds of educational, social, and commercial activity.

The mothers who protested SB 276 formed PERK (Protection of the Educational Rights of Kids)—a 501c3 non-profit organization for defending educational freedom and medical freedom. PERK is precisely the sort of institution that Tocqueville had in mind as a bastion against the encroachments of tyranny….. Read more

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