Bring LBHS Graduation Back to Irvine Bowl in Laguna Beach!
Change.org (Elizabeth Bates, petitioner) · Elizabeth Bates
- Published:
- 2025-08-27
- Retrieved:
- 2026-05-18
Change.org petition launched by Elizabeth ('Liz') Bates on August 27, 2025 — approximately six months before the Feb 26, 2026 board vote — targeting all five LBUSD board members and then-Superintendent Glass. Final signature count: 1,134. The petition's geographic location field is set to 'Laguna Beach, United States' but Change.org applies no residency or LBUSD-family verification mechanism — any signer with internet access can sign. The Samantha Savage counter-petition cites an audit claim that '35% of the votes came from zip codes outside even the three adjacent zip codes to the Laguna Beach school district,' i.e., roughly 395 of the 1,134 signatures from outside the district's immediate geographic catchment. The Feb 26 board record reflects Bates citing the petition at 'over 1,100 signatures'; the Feb 12 record per meetings.toml reflects '700+' (the in-progress count six weeks earlier).
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Liz Bates's petition, launched August 27, 2025 (~6 months pre-vote). Final count 1,134 signatures. Petition organizer Bates cited it at the Feb 26 meeting as 'over 1,100 signatures.' Change.org applies no residency-verification mechanism; counter-petition (Savage) cites a 35%-outside-district-zip-code audit claim against the Bates signature composition.