February 8, 2024 – a letter to audit@schools.utah.gov, the Utah State Board of Education board@schools.utah.gov, and individual board members regarding board member Natalie Cline’s reckless and endangering posts on social media.
- https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2024/02/08/utah-school-board-leaders-promise/
- https://www.ksl.com/article/50871903/lawmakers-considering-impeachment-of-school-board-member-cline-over-controversial-post-
Hello Internal Audit Team and USBE Board Members –
Natalie Cline has committed defamation and reckless endangerment of a minor and her family.
How well beyond normal limits can a board member go before something is done? Please reign in Natalie Cline by censuring her. According to your ByLaws, which states that the board is allowed to immediately remove her from committee meetings and committee assignments, restricting her from placing items on the agenda, and taking other appropriate action.
I urge you to take “other appropriate actions” by censuring her, permanently banning her from all board activities, and referring her to the Attorney General for violations of law. If you can remove her from the board, find a way to do that.
Article IV, #12: A Member may be reprimanded, or the actions of a Member censured, for any violation of law, policy, Bylaws, or any other conduct which tends to injure the good name of the Board, following adequate due process, if appropriate. The Board or Board leadership may authorize any of the following:
a) A conversation between the offending member and the Board Chair/Leadership or Assistant Attorney General;
b) A written letter to the offending Member from the Board Chair/Leadership or Assistant Attorney General;
c) Censuring the offending Member by a vote of the Board;
d) Prohibiting the offending Member from attending any Board advisory committee meeting, as determined by the Board Chair;
e) Prohibiting the offending Member from requesting an item to be placed on an agenda, as determined by the Board Chair;
f) Removing the offending member from any or all committee assignments as determined by the Board Chair; or
g) Taking other appropriate action.
Natalie Cline has attacked schools, doxxed teachers, spied on teacher training, accused educators of “grooming children” for sex trafficking. This time she makes a baseless attack on a Granite District student on social media, and endangers the student and her family.
I know that my representative Natalie Cline WILL NOT and CANNOT represent me due to her extreme partisan bias. She is a scourge on the face of public education who actively works against the better interests of the majority of tax-paying Utahns putting their children through our public school programs.
If only I had a board representative who believed in the betterment of education rather than to tear it down.
Greg Green
South Jordan, Utah (District 9)