More Racist Flyers Found at 3 Schools

Students and officials at schools in Thousand Oaks and Ojai found racist flyers in student lockers Friday morning identical to those found at other schools across Ventura County in recent months.

The flyers were discovered at Matilija Junior High and Nordhoff High in Ojai, and at Thousand Oaks High, authorities said. Although students at the two Ojai schools were on spring break, a Matilija pupil found the flyer when she went to her locker Friday morning, leading officials to check the lockers at Nordhoff.

At Thousand Oaks High, social studies teacher Gregory Barker said he discussed the flyers with students in his classes.

“The reaction was universal,” Barker said. “They were appalled. They were really appalled. They couldn’t believe anybody would write that kind of stuff.”

The flyers include a diatribe against immigrants and ethnic minorities that is headed by the question: “Is the White Race Extinct?”

They are identical to those found stuffed in lockers at Simi Valley High School in December, Westlake High in January, and Royal High in Simi Valley and Buena High in Ventura last month.

There are no suspects in any of the incidents, Ventura County Sheriff’s Lt. Gary Backman said.

Detectives are investigating the incidents, Backman said, but it does not appear that distribution of the flyers at the schools is a crime, unless police can show that people who are not employees or students at the school trespassed on school property.

Barker said he used the flyers in his instruction about totalitarian governments and the Holocaust. “We’re looking at racism. We’re looking at bigotry.”

In addition to being found in schools around Ventura County, the flyers were discovered in December at various locations in Los Angeles County.