Pasadena Unified Board Member May Sue District: Report

PASADENA, CA — A Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education member may sue the district for allegedly violating her First Amendment rights, according to Pasadena Now.

An attorney for Board Member Tina Wu Fredericks said her colleagues tried to silence her after local media outlets published opinion pieces she wrote that advocated for the district to adopt a COVID-19 mandate. She was criticized during an August board meeting, and Board Member Michelle Richardson Bailey called for a review of the district’s board of ethics, Pasadena Now reported.

“Their method was to publicly shame Member [Wu] Fredericks as unethical because they disagreed with her constitutionally protected outside expressive activities advocating a PUSD vaccine mandate – a public health issue with immediate life-and-death consequences that is at the highest order of public interest protected by the constitutional expressive rights because of the current pandemic of the unvaccinated that especially threaten the life and health of PUSD’s vaccine-ineligible students who are under the age of 12,” according to a letter written by Fredricks’s attorney read, Pasadena Now reported.

Visit Pasadena Now's website for more on the possible lawsuit from PUSD Board Member Tina Wu Fredericks.