In May 2026, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark parental rights decision in Mirabelli v. Bonta, the California Justice Center filed a motion on behalf of the Chino Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) to dissolve a 2024 court-ordered injunction that blocked the district’s parental notification policy. A hearing on the motion is scheduled for September 2026.
CVUSD’s parental notification policy, adopted in July 2023, required school personnel to notify parents if a student requested to be treated as a gender different from their biological sex, including making changes to their names, pronouns, or participation in sex-segregated programs.
Chino Valley’s school board was the first in California to adopt such a parental notification policy, and other school districts across the state soon followed CVUSD’s lead in adopting parental notification policies of their own.
In an effort to stop more school districts from adopting the popular policies, California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued CVUSD in the Superior Court of San Bernardino to stop its policy from going into effect.
Although CVUSD prevailed on other aspects of the case, on October 3, 2024, Superior Court Judge Michael Sachs issued a permanent injunction blocking the policy based on state law interpretations.
However, in December, 2025, a federal judge in another case, Mirabelli v. Olson, issued a permanent injunction against Bonta and state education officials, halting the California Dept. of Education’s “Parental Exclusion Policies” that order teachers to hide a child’s gender transition at school from their parents.
Bonta took that fight to the U.S. Supreme Court and lost. In March, 2026, the Supreme Court held in Mirabelli that parents have a constitutional right to be informed when their child expresses gender incongruence in the public school setting and requires schools to provide such notice.
Now, attorneys with the California Justice Center and Advocates for Faith & Freedom, who are representing Chino Valley, are requesting the state court bring its ruling into alignment with Mirabelli.
The district’s motion warns that continued enforcement of Judge Sachs’ injunction is legally untenable.
“Chino Valley is now in the impossible position of being subject to two conflicting permanent injunctions—one from the Mirabelli case requiring Chino to notify parents if their child asks to change their gender, and Judge Sachs’ injunction that prohibits that same policy,” said Emily Rae, President of the California Justice Center. “We filed this motion to ensure Chino has clarity moving forward and to stand up for the rights of parents.”
San Bernardino County Superior Court No. CIVSB2317301
