A Carmel Mountain Ranch elementary school that was threatened with mass shootings and violence was at the center of a new bill recently signed into law that criminalizes targeted threats to institutions, buildings and campuses.

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Signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Oct. 11, Senate Bill 19 closes a legal loophole and allows violent threats made against schools, workplaces, houses of worship and other public gathering spaces to be more fully prosecuted.

Assemblymember Darshana Patel, D-San Diego, who co-authored the bill, said the previous law was ambiguous as to whether someone could be criminally prosecuted if the threat was made against an institution rather than a specific person. The issue gained attention after a man in her district, Lee Lor, 40, sent an email saying he wa

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