America First Legal (AFL) has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education, urging an investigation into Illinois' new law mandating annual mental-health screenings for children without parental consent. The announcement was made via a social media post on X.

Illinois’s Public Act 104-0032, signed into law in 2025, requires that starting with the 2027-28 school year, all public schools provide annual mental-health screenings for students in grades 3 through 12. The law tasks the Illinois State Board of Education and the Department of Public Health with developing and implementing the screening program.

According to a 2023 statewide "landscape scan" by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE), approximately 71 percent of Illinois school districts already conduct some form o

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