A loophole in California law makes it hard to prosecute threats against schools. Will lawmakers close it?

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For over six months, San Diego resident Lee Lor sent hundreds of emails threatening a mass shooting at Shoal Creek Elementary School as replies to random spam emails.

He was arrested and spent 10 months in jail, but the charges were dismissed by a judge last October because Lor didn’t name a specific individual in his threats, as the law requires for prosecution.

A week after he was released, police rearrested Lor after they found a loaded firearm in his house and a map of the San Diego school he threatened—less than a mile from his house. Prosecutors are bringing a new case against him, this time arguing that Lor was targeting the school’s principal.

Read more at CalMatters.

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