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Loudoun Sheriff Closes Probe Into ‘Anti-Racist’ Group: ‘Asking Someone To Hack Is Not Illegal’

Luke Rosiak
Loudoun Sheriff Closes Probe Into ‘Anti-Racist’ Group: ‘Asking Someone To Hack Is Not Illegal’
Teacher Andrea Weiskopf participated in the Anti-Racist Parents facebook group. (Public Domain)

The Loudoun County, Virginia, sheriff’s office has closed its investigation into a Facebook group that threatened to “hack” and “expose” parents who opposed Critical Race Theory in schools, saying “asking someone to hack is not illegal and that we would need a furtherance of the act. At present we do not have information that anyone has been hacked.”

The report also says that school board member Beth Barts, whose comments triggered the hunt for dissident parents in the affluent, semi-rural Virginia suburb, told police she did not access the group during a key period when the list-making was going on — a statement that appears to be contradicted by timestamped data from Facebook contained in the report.

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