calls and emails — some including threats — from around the country, demanding Felarca be fired. They also show how the district responded to media inquiries about the teacher.

Felarca is a prominent local activist who has often said she believes militant action is required to squash fascism and bigotry. She is currently facing felony assault and rioting charges, the result of a video showing the teacher hitting a demonstrator at a neo-Nazi rally in Sacramento in June 2016. Those events, Felarca’s involvement in the February 2017 Milo Yiannopoulos clashes, and her subsequent appearance on Fox all prompted the deluge of calls from conservatives — as well as some local parents, the records show — demanding her dismissal.

The day after the Sacramento rally, BUSD received an anonymous email threateningto harm King students, which the district publicized at the time. BUSD relocated two non-district summer camps that were using the site and alerted the FBI and Berkeley police. Although the district’s statement then did not clarify the nature of the harm that was threatened, an email in the new records from King Principal Janet Levenson confirms it was a shooting threat, as parents of campers had said at the time.

That week, Levenson told district leaders, “The calls about Felarca are endless.”

One of the callers said they were a King parent and threatened to sue BUSD if Felarca put their child in danger, wrote Natasha Beery, BUSD community engagement director, in an email a couple days later. The parent did not leave their name, so the call might