Christian Group Gets Temporary Access to Oakland School Grounds

Oakland Unified School District is temporarily barred from enforcing facility use policies against a Christian nonprofit in any way that denies the group equal access to after-school space to host religious club meetings.

The Child Evangelism Fellowship of NorCal Inc. is likely to suffer irreparable harm absent injunctive relief while its claims are litigated because the nonprofit and its Good News Club are “excluded from OUSD facilities because of CEF’s religious viewpoint,” Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. said in an order filed Aug. 15 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California granting CEF’s request for a ...