Amid a flurry of reproach, the City Council unanimously passed an urgency ordinance restricting demonstrations at schools in the city following a contentious anti-vaccine mandate protest at Hawthorne Elementary School on Oct. 6. The ordinance, agendized at the last minute for an Oct. 12 meeting, prohibits demonstrations within 300 feet of most school entrances and prohibits demonstrators from following students to or from school.
“The behavior of the protesters who harassed kids and their parents on Walk to School Day was simply horrific and it can’t be allowed to happen again,” said Mayor Robert Wunderlich, who joined Walk to School Day and was confronted by the same group of protesters.
