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When you drop your kid off at school

You should feel safe

knowing they will be protected.

Yet Ricardo Valencia wants to make our schools less safe.

Ricardo Valencia advocated for removing police officers from our school campuses.1

Stand for school safety.Say NO toRicardo Valencia for Supervisor.
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School shootings.
Mental health crisis.
Violent predators.
Our schools have never faced such grave safety threats as they do today.
What does Ricardo Valencia want to do about it?
Remove school resource officers from campus.1

Since 1999, the rate of U.S. students exposed to a school shootinghas nearly tripled.

Reported school threat under investigation at Santa Maria High SchoolKSBY, 8/27/26
social media threat targeting Orcutt AcademyKSBY, 8/24/26
Yet Ricardo Valencia still pushed a radical plan to remove school resource officers from campus, leaving students and teachers vulnerable.1
As a school board member,
Ricardo Valencia
advocated for removing police officers from school campuses.1
Ricardo Valencia at a podium

With rising threats against our school communities, we need leaders who will put school safety before radical political agendas.

Stand for school safety.
Say NO to Ricardo Valencia for Supervisor.

Defund the police?

Ricardo Valencia is endorsed by extremist groups that advocate for stripping local law enforcement of the resources needed to keep our neighborhoods safe.2–5

“We must defund the police”

-Indivisible5

With rising crime impacting our communities, we need leaders who will keep Santa Maria safe.

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Sources

  1. Santa Maria Sun, “School board approves school resource officer positions, despite opposition,” 6/7/21
  2. valenciaforsupervisor.com, “Endorsements,” accessed 3/30/26
  3. workingfamilies.org, “Our 2026 Candidates,” accessed 3/30/26
  4. workingfamilies.org, “The People’s Charter,” accessed 3/30/26
  5. indivisible.org, “Indivisible’s statement on the grand jury decision in Breonna Taylor case,” 9/23/20
  6. KSBY, “Reported school threat under investigation at Santa Maria High School,” 8/27/26; KSBY, “social media threat targeting Orcutt Academy,” 8/24/26
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