California community leaders call for urgent action on broadband access
September 29, 2020
Electronic Frontier Foundation article by: Hayley Tsukayama
More than fifty California organizations, businesses, and public officials—including the AARP of California, the San Francisco Tech Council, the California Center for Rural Policy, the Khan Academy, and a number of California cities and counties—join Common Sense Kids Action and EFF in urging Governor Gavin Newsom to call the legislature back into a special session to address the state’s digital divide.
California families face these problems every day—regardless of whether their representatives are willing to help them or not. But the people of California need help, and the state should move forward now to begin the work needed to finally close the digital divide.
Canal Alliance among fifty other organizations have already joined the call, and we hope Governor Newsom will listen.
Read the full article on the EFF website.
