In August the freedom group, Brave and Free Santa Cruz, filed a lawsuit in the federal court in Sacramento against the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and others to challenge California’s requirement that all children get ten of the vaccinations recommended by the U.S. Centers For Disease Control.
On October 31 Free Now Foundation joined the lawsuit as a plaintiff and the lawsuit was narrowed to challenge those vaccination requirements as applied to special needs children. Those special needs children number more than 800,000 in California alone; many of them already with disabilities due to vaccine injury.
The legal basis for this challenge is that the federal government picks up the cost for educating those special needs children under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (“IDEA”). Under IDEA, California must educate all special needs children, regardless of whether they have all their vaccinations or not. The CDPH has been ignoring that requirement for years. This lawsuit seeks an order from the federal court to make the CDPH and the California Department of Education (CDE) abide by the federal law and exempt all of those more than 800,000 California students from those required vaccinations.
We are pleased to report that we have now filed a motion in that case for a preliminary injunction to force the CDPH and the CDE to exempt all those 800,000 special needs students from California’s required vaccinations within 30 days. The motion will be heard by the court on January 21, 2025. The public can listen to the hearing at that time by dialing 888-557-8511 and using access code 9683466.
Aria Morgan is a writer and advocate dedicated to civil liberties, medical freedom, and free speech. As Director of Content at Free Now Foundation (2024–2026) and former Managing Editor of Children’s Health Defense–CA (2021–2024), she helped shape investigative storytelling efforts advancing informed consent and individual rights.
Aria bridges more than 30 years of embodied wellness practice and over 25 years of teaching with civic engagement. Her wellness work lives at DailyDowndog.com
👏👏👏 nice job Aria.
I’m curios about the “disability”. Do all 800,000 have the same disability, or are they all categorized with a broad brush as disabled. More specifically, is it a physical, or mental disability? Ill leave it there, unless you need to know more about me and why I’m interested.
Thank you for exposing this.
Hi Melissa, Thank you for reading and supporting our efforts! Not all of the 800,000 kids referred to in the article have the same disability. This is a generalized number of kids classified as special needs (or IEP) by the State of California. The most common disabilities among these students are not physical, but rather, learning disabilities such as speech or language impairments, and autism.