CA schools to notify parents about risks of social media, drugs [Video]

SACRAMENTO, Calif — California lawmakers are taking steps to raise awareness about the dangers of fentanyl. 

Over the weekend, Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law that requires schools to notify parents and guardians about the risk of social media platforms being used to market and sell synthetic drugs, like fentanyl.

Assemblymember Joe Patterson (R-Rocklin), who represents Placer and El Dorado counties, authored the bill after hearing the story of 17-year-old Zach Didier when he was mayor of Rocklin. The Rocklin teen died from fentanyl posioning after taking a counterfeit pill he got off of Snapchat.

“That was the first I ever heard about fentanyl, and almost every parent I’ve met that has lost a child to fentanyl has said they didn’t don’t know how they got it or where it came from,” Patterson said. 

He said a similar bill …