That the law would fall most heavily on poor black women did not trouble her. Running in 2010 for attorney general, Harris made the truancy program part of her campaign. She won the election, and ...

Kamala Harris, who has made her prosecutorial record a centerpiece of her presidential bid, said she now has misgivings about a California law she championed that punished parents of habitually ...

Sen. Kamala Harris acknowledges that a 2010 state truancy law she sponsored resulted in some parents being jailed. But she misleadingly claims that jailing parents was an “unintended consequence ...

Harris especially pushed tough-on-truancy, shepherding it into law in California. The policy has lost favor among experts and candidates, and Harris has said she regrets some of the effects of ...

Kamala Harris expressed regret this week for a 2011 anti-truancy law she supported that put some parents in jail while she was California’s attorney general.

Kamala Harris, who has made her prosecutorial record a centerpiece of her presidential bid, said she now has misgivings about a California law she championed that punished parents of habitually ...

So, I decided I was going to start prosecuting parents for truancy.” U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks to her supporters at the official launch rally for her presidential campaign in front ...

The truancy law became such a problem for Harris that she went on “Pod Save America” to walk back her support for it, saying the criminalization of parents troubled her.

Under the law, parents can be fined as much as $2,000 and serve up to a year in jail. During a speech in 2010, Harris attributed her success in life to her education and said: “I believe a child going ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Molly Redden, a senior politics reporter with HuffPost, about Kamala Harris' years-long campaign against truancy in California and why it remains controversial.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Molly Redden, a senior politics reporter with HuffPost, about Kamala Harris' years-long campaign against truancy in California and why it remains controversial.