I've seen reports that says it wasn't enforced, statements that 1000's of parents were effected and statement that said very few. I need to get to the bottom of this because I have a feeling people are just repeating what they see.
FACT CHECK: Kamala Harris Says She Never Jailed Anybody For Truancy
The one parent who was jailed:
California mom jailed for kids’ truancy - her children missed 116 days of school.
The story mentions another parent but no other details were available.
Another thing I found while googling this: A single county in Pennsylvania
jailed more than 1,600
parents between 2000 and 2015 for their failure to pay
truancy-related fines.
LATimes story: “Harris issued citations to parents whose children missed more than 50 days of school, but none of them were put in jail,” the
Los Angeles Times wrote in an April 17 story.