Top Takeaways
- Central Valley parents signed petitions demanding cameras be placed in California’s special education classrooms, as is allowed in states such as Texas and Louisiana.
- The petitions grew from cases of suspected teacher misconduct in classrooms where students have significant disabilities and cannot reliably report what happens.
- One barrier to cameras in California is a 1976 law requiring the permission of a teacher and principal to record in a classroom.
Brittney Camacho was in disbelief after she received the call from the Visalia Police Department in Tulare County in September 2025. An officer told her something that her children could not — that they may have been the victim of physical abuse.
The alleged suspect? Her children’s teacher.
“I would never have assumed that was happening at the school,” she said. “I was in shock.”…