Quoted in the article: Carolyn Swanson, whose daughter Dorothy is in first grade in Pacific Grove Unified near Monterey, said she’s fine with distance learning and online teacher meetings — if that’s what it takes to keep her daughter safe. Dorothy has Down syndrome and, like a lot of children with disabilities, is especially vulnerable […]

One of key drivers of getting the Dec. 12 resolution in front of board members was Carolyn Swanson, a Pacific Grove mother of a first-grader. She said this kind of local action can be a powerful tool to address the public health crisis of gun violence. “There were a lot of community members who were […]