The Community Rights Campaign has created a new map to track the geographical areas and the break down of the race and gender composition of students that have received Daytime Curfew "Truancy" Tickets under the Los Angeles Municipal Code 45.04.

After two years of pressuring the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and Los Angeles School Police Department (LASPD) for the demographics of the 47,117 tickets distributed between the years 2004 to 2009 we have finally received and analyzed the data!

In analyzing the data on tickets distributed, we found that Black students are twice as likely than the overall population of school aged youth in the City of Los Angeles to be cited for a daytime curfew violation and the highest number of tickets by geographic location is concentrated in parts of East Los Angeles and South Los Angeles.

This map is an important tool in making the legal case that "truancy" tickets violate the civil and educational rights of the 90% Black and Latino students that attend LAUSD schools; and further supports our demands for an immediate moratorium on the distribution of "truancy" tickets and the creation of student centered services and alternatives to address the root causes of truancy and tardiness.

Thank you to the support and work of Scripps College students and staff for helping create this map. In the weeks to follow, we will be working with the Advancement Project to create a Geographic Information System (GIS) map. We look forward to sharing that product with you shortly!