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JKF Accomplishments 2025/2026 School Year Semester 1:

*Flew to Washington D.C and met with top Department of Justice attorneys to present our findings on over 30 cases of sexual abuse in Jefferson County Public Schools (ongoing collaboration)

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*Filed detailed reports that helped launch a U.S Department of Education Title IX investigation launch on overnight travel opposite sex rooming assignments investigation (ongoing collaboration)

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*Provided over 50 documents to the FBI regarding Jeffco Schools' implementation of the McKinney Vento Homeless Assistance Act and falsely declaring students as unaccompanied homeless youth without parental involvement!

*Continued documentation of multiple *new* adult sexual abuse and misconduct against students in schools (and repeated attempts to share our findings with the Board of Education and district leadership).

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*Inspired Library Policy adjustments on behalf of parents and guardians. 1) Restrictions on obscene materials as outlined in state law 2). Implemented policy wording that allows parents to limit their own children’s access to materials 3). Removing requirement forcing parents to read a book in its entirety before raising concerns 4). Shortened the book-challenging timeframe from 5 years to 3 years (once a book has already gone through the process)

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*Partnered with Evergreen HS parents and community members to compile a detailed letter to the Jeffco Sheriff and other safety leaders regarding logistical and oversight concerns after the Evergreen High School shooting tragedy (and received answers to some of those questions).

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*Helped expose "equity" as documented rationale for lack of Evergreen High School School Resource Officers at the time of the shooting

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*Exposed Board Member's statement "Safety is a Privilege" after the Evergreen Shooting and responded to multiple TV news stations calls for comment

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*Exposed sexually-based criminal history concerns regarding a potential Board of Education member 

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*Inspired *new* requirement to disclose a deferred sentence on employee/Board Member background checks (due to our work regarding previous bullet point)

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*Addressed controversial curriculum issues such as teaching nonbinary pronouns in middle school Spanish.

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*Ongoing discussions to ensure proper balance on controversial topics in Growing and Changing curriculum (after many adjustments made due to our pushback).

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*Inspired social media account controls to reduce private student/employee communication and exposure to adult content (a frequently surfacing issue).

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*Successfully assisting Jeffco employees with workplace concerns (thank you to the HR professional on our team)!

*Pushed for transparency (district-wide employee letter) regarding the US Supreme Court decision on allowing parents to opt out of controversial lessons due to religious beliefs (ongoing discussions and pressure to get this done).

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*Countless news and radio stories and appearances during Evergreen Shooting, budget crisis, sexual abuse scandals, Jeffco Hero Yeti Mug deliveries, and more!

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*Delivered 200 "Jeffco Hero" Yeti Mugs to all safety personnel (SROs, security guards, dispatch, emergency response, etc) with the help of 60 volunteers, donors providing $8000, 5 pickup locations around the district, and deliveries made at every location

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*Preparation for new podcast launch “Defeating Deception with Jeffco Kids First”

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2024/2025 School Year Semester 2:

*Igniting US Department of Ed Title IX investigation into Jeffco Schools (by filing extensive Office of Civil Rights complaint and 100 of our members were asked to fill out the national reporting tool/ attach relevant policy).

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*Documenting and uncovering 30+ Sexual abuse/misconduct/grooming/unethical behavior issues in Jeffco Schools. Multiple local news stories shedding light on our documentation.

 

*Uncovering hiring /firing/reporting patterns with sexual misconduct, grooming, other unethical behavior (including previously paid settlement to employee charged with abuse, hiring child-facing employees with extensive felonies/past criminal behavior, passing employees from district to district (even to other countries).

 

*Meeting with state elected officials to discuss our documented discoveries and concerns.

 

*Connecting with Faith from Illinois who inspired Faith’s Law (a law requiring sexual misconduct disclosure before hiring).

 

*Columbine Homeless/Grooming Story: National/International stories inspiring criminal investigation due to documented deception from employees.

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*McKinney Vento Homeless Assistance Act Exposure/concerns: (working with affected families to understand how the district is declaring students homeless behind parents’ backs at much higher rates than neighboring districts), placing them on government assistance, obtaining funding, explicitly failing to contact parents during the process).

 

*Greek Mythology Grooming Case: “You know you like older men,” Discovering emails showing the Jeffco legal department wanted a lateral move of employee after extensive grooming evidence.

 

*$10,000 in scholarships (now totaling $30,000 given to Jeffco grads seeking any form of higher education!

 

*Let us be (Superintendent to Board member): After JKF members attended a board retreat and informed us that official business had been done via text, our open records request instilled panic, leading us to uncover the district text messages fiasco regarding Dave Weiss (Chief of Schools-child sexual assault material scandal). Several media responses followed our discoveries!

 

*Filing a federal Civil Rights complaint regarding children of the opposite sex forced to share beds, hotel rooms, and bunk rooms with peers and high school leaders.

 

*Ensuring removal of flyers in high school bathrooms telling students “no questions asked” if drugs/alcohol are disposed of properly.

 

*Addressing high school play with pornography as the central theme, leading to implementation of an approval process at the district level.

 

*Inspiring overhaul of boundaries and use of the term “Trusted Adult.” This includes, removal of self-declarative trusted adult posters, school-wide contests voting for favored trusted adults, etc.

 

*Providing countless hours of support, resources, connections, and open records assistance to multiple families severely affected by sexual misconduct, gender ideology, and deceptive policies in Jeffco Schools.

 

*Preparing for defamation case Court of Appeals hearing on June 4th! (the media lost their special motion to dismiss at the district level and is now appealing).

 

​*Beginning plans for our August 7th, 2025 “Let Them Be Little” gala. Please save the date!

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2024/2025 School Year Semester 1:

PARENTAL DECEPTION AND PRIVACY- EQUAL OPPORTUNITY POLICY WINS FOR EVERY CHILD SET IN STONE (A 2 YEAR ENDEAVOR)

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JKF/DATKO AND COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA DEFAMATION LAWSUIT SUCCESS: 2 judges dismissed special motions to dismiss and agreed that we established actual malice by clear and convincing evidence and that there is reasonable likelihood we would prevail in front of a jury. 

 

FIREFIGHTER RELIEF: In a few days, we raised over $15,000 in funds (from 300+ donors) and 200 hours in volunteer time to provide relief.  The Sheriff and county emergency management team recognized our efforts. An honor of a lifetime.

 

ENSTROM’S CANDY I PLEDGE PROJECT: Fun summer gathering with free ice cream for all kids who recited the pledge.  

 

COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION CALL: This meeting led to us ensuring the state removed highly controversial social studies content and added a disclaimer that the resources were not sanctioned by the Department of Ed.  This then led us to influence Jeffco to remove these resources from the district altogether.  

 

GALA WITH RILEY GAINES: Powerful evening fueling us for the year!

 

SUPPORTING PLAINTIFFS SEEKING EMERGENCY INJUNCTION FOR NCAA WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT (TRANSGENDER PLAYER SAFETY ISSUE)

 

AMERICAN FLAG IN EVERY CLASSROOM PROJECT: over $10,000 raised and 1,000 flags placed after every school was contacted by a team of 50 volunteers (in alignment with state statute). Beautiful news stories on this!

 

$5895 RAISED FOR HOPE HOUSE TEEN MOMS (GED CERTIFICATIONS AND TUTORING)

 

COLUMBINE TEACHER (DECLARED STUDENT HOMELESS WITH HELP OF STAFF, GROOMED HER AND MOVED WITH HER TO CA) TEACHER LICENSURE REMOVED AFTER FAMILY AND JKF WORKED 2 YEARS DESPITE JEFFCO LEGAL MAKING MINIMAL EFFORT

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ENSURING REMOVAL OF GENDER-SPECTRUM BULLETIN BOARD LEADING FAMILIES TO CHOICE OUT OF THE SCHOOL

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REMOVAL OF POLITICAL PETITIONS IN SCHOOLS

 

ACCOUNTABILITY AND DISTRICT EXPECTATIONS SET FOR PROTECTED INFORMATION/PRONOUN SURVEYS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR

 

Ensuring boundaries with use of the term Trusted Adult in schools (i.e. teachers self identifying as trusted adults).

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REMOVAL OF CONTROVERSIAL EMPLOYEE SIGNATURE LINKS (i.e. pronouns.org and GLSEN.org-teaching kids how to escape the website)  IN EMPLOYEE SIGNATURES: Jeffco will now be providing approved signatures due to the numerous examples provided to us from around the district.

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ADDRESSING AUTOMATIC PLACEMENT OF STUDENTS INTO MIDDLE SCHOOL GSA CLUBS

 

ADDRESSING ELECTION SURVEYS (protected information that can’t be surveyed by law without parental permission and notice even if optional)

 

INAPPROPRIATE COURSE MARKETING LURING STUDENTS TO ADULT TOPICS (“SEX, POLITICS”, ETC) ADJUSTED TO ALIGN WITH APPROVED COURSE TITLE AND CURRICULUM ​

 

SUPPORTING FAMILY/VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ABUSE IN SCHOOLS

 

JEFFCO KIDS FIRST KIDS-PROFESSIONAL PHOTOS ON JEFFCO FOOD TRUCKS-WILL REMAIN FOR 10 YEARS!

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2023 Accomplishments:

 

*$5,000 in scholarships to graduating Jeffco seniors (a total of $10,000 given so far).

 

*$13,000 raised in partnership with Hestra glove company for a holiday surprise for 369 bus drivers, mechanics, transportation workers, and food delivery drivers!

 

*Visiting the Senate Floor

 

*Hosting a forum on school safety with John Castillo, father of Stem School Shooting Hero Kendrick Castillo

 

*Meeting with the Superintendent her cabinet members, and school board members to reiterate our mission and our specific policy goals to unify and respect the whole community

 

*Addressing concerns with the superintendent and her cabinet members regularly 

 

*Influenced the alignment of protected information (survey and privacy policies) with federal law (including the addition of religious beliefs)

 

*Requesting continual training refreshers for principals and school employees on requirements surrounding protected information and hiding it from their parents.  This ultimately led to an official directive from the school district telling teachers not to ask minor students for gender identify and not to hide information from parents.

 

*Igniting a local TV news (CBS 4) story on teachers’ union directive to destroy protected information (student surveys) which led to an international news story even reaching  the Daily Mail UK.

 

*Inspiring changes in the 5th Grade Growing and Changing curriculum including more careful use of the term “Trusted Adult,” and removal of the definition of oral sex.

 

*Start Time Survey feedback analyzed by former Air Force Research psychologist and acknowledged by the district cabinet.

 

*Gathering and providing background information on Health Kids Survey and ensuring clear communication for opt-out opportunities 2 weeks in advance (as required by law).

 

*Filming a professional mini documentary on JKF beginnings

 

*A thrilling Jeffco Kids First Gala Benefit with Jennifer Sey (former Levi’s executive) and Ross Kaminsky (popular local radio host) at The Woodlands Colorado.

 

*Partnering with Jeffco Schools transportation workers to hold a community school board candidate forum 

 

*Removal of manipulative book covers with controversial, graphic and sexual content at a Jeffco high school and receiving an apology for the oversight.  

 

*Providing information to parents regarding state-funded posters (often overriding parents and demeaning to families) leading students to text strangers with limited training and mental health and substance abuse challenges.  

 

*Preparing for a legal pursuit against Colorado Community Media due to a highly defamatory and libelous article written in October 2022.

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Our Beginning (2020-2022):

*Influenced the return to normalcy for Jeffco students through open records requests, research, persistence, and advising a local pediatrician.

*Pushed for executive-level change at Jefferson County Public Health by exposing leadership concerns with the Colorado Open Records Act

*Led 4 peaceful walks/protests (one drawing a news helicopter and nearly 700 people) during the pandemic.

*Multiple local and national TV news stories advocating for kids and their parents/guardians.

*Multiple radio appearances to secure our messaging.

*Multiple local and national publication stories.

*Significant influence on Jeffco Schools’ policies (including survey privacy protection in relation to federal policy and protection of parental and family beliefs)

*Ensuring enforcement of controversial issues policy in classrooms.

*$10k in scholarships over the past 2 years.

*Multiple community outreach efforts including: partnering with Qdoba to feed 15,000 Jeffco Schools employees, a full Christmas for a family of 7, feeding all school bus terminal workers, providing microphones for teachers wearing masks, and supplying baby items for an expectant mother in need.