{"id":471,"date":"2026-06-15T12:40:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2026-06-15T12:40:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:40:39","slug":"documents-show-biden-doj-ignored-warnings-targeted-parents-at-school-board-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"Documents Show Biden DOJ Ignored Warnings, Targeted Parents at School Board Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Newly obtained memos show that the US Department of Justice (DOJ), under former president Joe Biden, targeted parents at school board meetings despite warnings from FBI officials and a sheriffs association.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=469\">White Students Fall Below Half of Enrollment as Demographic Changes Reshape Classrooms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just the News reports that the conservative nonprofit America First Legal (AFL) acquired the documents as part of its ongoing lawsuit related to an October 4, 2021 memorandum from former Attorney General Merrick Garland that targeted concerned parents at school board meetings.<\/p>\n<p>The Garland memorandum was released despite \u201csome concern\u201d by FBI Deputy Assistant Director Jay Greenberg. Additionally, the National Sheriffs\u2019 Association stated that their sheriffs had \u201cnot heard any concerns about threats to local school boards.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\ud83d\udea8EXPOSED \u2014 New documents show Biden\u2019s DOJ unleashed the full force of the federal government against parents speaking out at school board meetings despite concerns from the FBI and the National Sheriffs\u2019 Association.<\/p>\n<p>This is what government weaponization looks like. pic.twitter.com\/SU5goChEjD<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 America First Legal (@America1stLegal) June 14, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe Biden DOJ ignored those warnings and chose instead to rely on the National School Board Association\u2019s politically charged effort to unleash the full weight of the federal government against American parents exercising their constitutional rights.<\/p>\n<p>Some inside the DOJ also worried that the strategy would boomerang, and create a political headache for elections.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=467\">White House Alarmed by Reports of Detailed Situation Room Accounts in Upcoming Trump Book<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One top DOJ official wrote in an email, \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s possible to state how strongly I object to this. It will completely and totally nuke our election threats efforts, and will damage the reputation of the Public Integrity Section into the bargain. It\u2019s like they\u2019ve affirmatively trying to make this thing not work and look political.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AFL reported that, \u201cOn October 8, 2021, the National Sheriffs\u2019 Association reached out to officials in the Associate Deputy Attorney General\u2019s Office, stating that its sheriffs had \u2018not heard any concerns about threats to local school boards\u2019 and that \u2018it would have been nice to have a heads-up,&#8217;\u201d referencing internal emails obtained by the nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Prior, Senior Advisor at AFL, said, \u201cThese documents prove that the Biden Administration ignored explicit warnings from the FBI\u2019s own leadership and the National Sheriffs\u2019 Association to appease radical leftist activists. By placing concerned parents in the same threat category as those targeting judges and Members of Congress, Garland\u2019s DOJ demonstrated the full extent of its weaponization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an AFL press release, Will Scolinos stated, \u201cParents speaking at school board meetings were never a national security threat, and the Biden DOJ knew it. These documents confirm that DOJ ignored the law enforcement\u2019s on-the-ground threat assessments and continued with its vindictive, politically-driven weaponization of parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=465\">Trump Pushes Congress to Link FISA Renewal With Election Integrity Measure<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly obtained memos show that the US Department of Justice (DOJ), under former president Joe Biden, targeted parents at school board meetings despite warnings\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biden"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Documents Show Biden DOJ Ignored Warnings, Targeted Parents at School Board Meetings - 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