• Narconon lies about its ties to the Church of Scientology, while funneling money to the International Association of Scientologists and other Scientology groups, and receiving money from them as well. Within Scientology, Narconon is known as "the bridge to The Bridge": a recruiting tool to lure in new members.
• Narconon makes fraudulent claims about its success rates. ("... close examination of what evidence does exist shows that it has invariably been misquoted, misused or quite simply lied about by Narconon." -- Chris Owen, Narconon Exposed)
• Narconon's unaccredited rehab program endangers people's health with a medically indefensible treatment regimen that poses a significant risk of liver damage.
• Narconon engages in covert religious instruction by incorporating the Church of Scientology's "training routines" (TRs) and "study technology" into its treatment program (see Narconon's Therapeutic TRs course and Learning Improvement course).
• An organization that behaves the way Narconon does has no business sending speakers into the public schools. Its parent organization, the Church of Scientology, is a dangerous cult that sometimes kills its own members.

NOTE: the federal Office of Civil Rights, in downtown San Francisco, would be pleased to hear from any parents of minority or Special Education students in the San Francisco Unified School District who are concerned about the Narconon Drug Education program that their children were exposed to without their knowledge or permission. Please call 415-556-4246 or 415-556-4275 with your concerns.

Narconon put together a collection of feedback forms from the children , which it's now using to promote itself to other SFUSD schools.

Many of the schools listed above have a high percentage of minority students. Scientology has also been found to be targeting minorities with education related programs in Massachusetts and Harlem.

	CBO Fact Sheet issued by the SFUSD in August, 2002, disclaiming any responsibility for the nature or message of organizations included in its CBO listing, as long as the topic is not related to sexuality. If the SFUSD thinks it's not responsible for who it allows to lecture its students and what message they deliver, then who does it think is responsible?
	Responsibilities of the SHPD and the CBO. The SHPD (School Health Program Department) takes no responsibility for the materials or message delivered by the CBOs they list. This is unacceptable.
	School site responsibilities. The individual schools are supposed to review the content of the presentation with the CBO's speaker coordinator. Why isn't the SHPD vetting these organizations? Why insist that teachers at individual schools discover for themselves, independently, that Narconon is a front for Scientology, when the school board already knows this?
	School district policy prohibits giving out names and addresses of teachers to third parties. SFUSD violated its own rules by giving this information to Narconon so it could market its services directly to school health coordinators.
	On January 24, 2004, the school district blocked access to this web site, Stop-Narconon.org. Why did SFUSD want to prevent people from reading this web site? The block was removed on January 27.
	Weekly Administrative Directive from January 21, 2004, reminding SFUSD teachers that they are protected under Federal whistleblower regulations from retaliation for reporting violations of state or federal law.

1. Send a letter to every school in the district informing them that Narconon is not an approved community-based organization, and its inclusion in the current CBO listing was an error.
2. Send a letter to the parents of every child who attended a Narconon presentation in a San Francisco school, telling them that Narconon is not approved for speaking to students in the school district, and that Narconon's ties to Scientology should have been disclosed and parental permission obtained before any presentation was made.
3. Issue a public statement assuring SFUSD parents that neither Narconon nor any other Scientology-affiliated organization will ever again be given access to their children, unless that organization's ties to Scientology are disclosed in advance and written parental consent has been obtained.

1. Letter from Kim Coates on February 20, 2004, complaining about innacuracies in Narconon materials. What she calls "misleading" statements, scientists call "nonsense". Later on she says "not substantiated by any reputable authority", which is a nice way of saying "nonsense".
2. Letter from Tony Bylsma on May 24, 2004, defending Narconon's nonsense. His response is arrogant and reads like a snow job.
3. Letter from Kim Coates on June 9, 2004, setting an ultimatum for Narconon to revise its materials by June 24 or it will be deleted from the list of Community Based Organizations sent to San Francisco schools. (Narconon should never have been on this list, and the fact that they're still on it is scandalous.)
4. Letter from Tony Bylsma on June 12, 2004, complaining that "pressure" is being brought on the school district to scrutinize Narconon.
5. Curriculum outline sent by Tony Bylsma to Kim Coates in late June, 2004.

• Dan Kelly, President (as of January 2004) of the Board of Education of the San Francisco Unified School District. dkelly@muse.sfusd.edu.
• State Senator Jackie Speier. Senator Speier has firsthand knowledge of the dangers of cults: she was serving as legal counsel to Congressman Leo J. Ryan in 1978 when she was wounded at the Jim Jones' Peoples Temple massacre in Jonestown, Guyana. Ryan was killed. senator.speier@sen.ca.gov
• Tom Ammiano, a member of the SF Board of Supervisors and past president of the SFUSD Board of Education. Supervisor Ammiano helped start the School Health Program which Narconon has now infiltrated. Tom.Ammiano@sfgov.org.