Flagstaff parent BANNED from school board meetings over alleged email “threat”

<p>On September 30, 2021, Chris Dimieri, a father of a Flagstaff Unified School District (FUSD) child, was permanently banned from attending any future FUSD school board meetings as a result of an email he sent the day before. </p> <p>In his September 29th email to the FUSD Governing Board, Dimieri, a local registered nurse, voiced his frustrations with the continuation of FUSD’s mask mandate that’s been in effect since the beginning of the school year. He pointed out that the masks were “causing irreparable harm” to the children. He also wrote that there would be many petitions “calling for your resignation” and that there’d be lots of emails “calling for you all to be arrested and serve jail time”. Dimieri ended the email with “Your time is coming”. </p> <p>On September 30th, FUSD called the Flagstaff Police Department stating they felt “threatened” by Dimieri’s comment and asked that he be trespassed and barred from FUSD property during all future board meetings. </p> <p>Dimieri shares his story on the Jeff Oravits Show </p> <p>During an interview on the Jeff Oravits Show on October 25th, Dimieri explained that FUSD misinterpreted his email and that his use of the phrase “your time is coming” was meant to be political and was not a “threat of anyone’s life or livelihood”. </p> <p>Dimieri went on to clarify further that he meant nothing physically and that he was talking politically and in writing “your time is coming” he was referring to a political solution such as voting them out through a recall or “whatever the method we have to do to protect our children”. All of which was referenced in his email to the board. (Board link here)</p> <p>Flagstaff Police get involved. </p> <p>On September 30th Dimieri was surprised when he received a call from an officer with the Flagstaff Police Department and was told that at the request of FUSD, he was trespassed and barred from any future governing board meetings. </p> <p>During Dimieri’s interview on the Jeff Oravits Show he noted that the officer had a laugh an