Calif. bill targets military recruiters in schools

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's Assembly approved on Thursday a bill that could make it more difficult for military recruiters to contact high school students.

The Democrat-led chamber passed the bill on a 43-30 vote. It now goes to the state's Democrat-controlled Senate.

The bill would require school districts to provide parents with the opportunity to the tell the districts if they do not want contact information given to third parties.

"Many parents have been shocked with the aggressiveness of military recruiters. In many cases, parents were not aware that their children's personal information would be released to recruiters, nor that they had the right to opt out of the release of information to the military," said Democratic Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, the bill's author.

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