In re L.F. CA1/4

I. BACKGROUND

Thomas F.’s two daughters attended Fairfield High School (FHS). One evening in May 2014, one of his daughters told him she did not want to go to school after reading on

1 All undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.

1 Twitter that “somebody was going to shoot up the school the following morning.” The person “tweeting” was Minor, another FHS student. Thomas F. looked at the “tweets” on his daughter’s phone and then found the Twitter account on his own phone. Although he was not one of Minor’s “followers,” Thomas F. was able to view the account by searching for her username. The tweets in question were made over the course of approximately three hours. Among Minor’s tweets were the following: “If I get a gun it’s fact I’m spraying [five laughing emojis] everybody better duck or get wet”;2 “I’m dead ass [three laughing emojis] not scared to go to jail for shooting up FHS warning everybody duck”; “Nigga we ain’t fighting I’m bringing a gun [six laughing emojis]”; “Mfs don’t really kno me [two laughing emojis] I have touched a gun pointed one don’t [. . .] Bitch I kno how to aim”;3 “Mfs tripping boii [three laughing emojis] I’m frfr black mask yellow…