California’s school districts, counties and cities are fiscally strapped. And the public employee unions just cut their noses off to spite their faces, adding to the consternation.

As a member of the California Assembly, Lorena Gonzalez-Fletcher felt that organizations and school districts should be held financially responsible for the bad acts of their employees who committed childhood sexual abuse. So, she used a 2013 bill, Senate Bill 131, authored by then state Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, as her template. Even though then-Gov. Jerry Brown had vetoed it.

How did Gonzalez-Fletcher intend to teach these entities a lesson? By extending the statute of limitations. Never mind that it would bring out aggressive law firms advertising for cases. Never mind if many of the supposed culprits m

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