Annual organizational meeting: board removes Perry as Clerk and denies her rotation to President
At the December 11, 2018 annual organizational meeting — the meeting at which the board elects its president and clerk for the upcoming year per California Education Code §35143 and Board Bylaw 9100 — the LBUSD Board took action that would later become the central allegation of Perry's December 2019 federal §1983 complaint. Per Perry's pleading (paragraphs 43–47 of the operative complaint, Case No. 8:19-cv-02381-DOC-JDE), Perry had completed one year as Clerk and was in line under the customary rotation to be elevated to Board President. The complaint alleges the board "block-voted to both remove Plaintiff as Clerk and deny Plaintiff the rotation to President in retaliation due to Plaintiff's political beliefs, strong advocacy on behalf of students, and open-door policy to her constituents." The complaint further alleges that the meeting "was neither recorded by audio or video," and ties the action to an earlier unrecorded November 15, 2017 board discussion in which the board majority allegedly committed in advance to deny Perry the customary rotation. Wolff was elected Board President at the December 11, 2018 meeting per contemporaneous news coverage. These are allegations from Perry's filed complaint; the case was ultimately dismissed three times between March and September 2020.
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- Perry v. Viloria — Complaint (Document 1, filed December 10, 2019) primary U.S. District Court, Central District of California (via CourtListener / RECAP)U.S. District Court, Central District of California (via CourtListener / RECAP) · Michael J. Aguirre, Maria C. Severson · 2019-12-10
After Plaintiff was re-elected in November 2018, at the December 11, 2018 annual organizational meeting, the Board once again failed to make a record of the proceeding by either audio or video recording. With a virtual open meeting black-out in effect, the Board block-voted to both remove Plaintiff as Clerk and deny Plaintiff the rotation to President in retaliation due to Plaintiff's political beliefs, strong advocacy on behalf of students, and open-door policy to her constituents.
Verbatim allegation (¶47) of the Perry v. Viloria complaint. This is the origin-grievance for the litigation.