The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an investigation into four California school districts over policies pertaining to the instruction of gender and sexual orientation.

On Monday, the agency said the San Francisco Unified School District, along with the Graves Elementary School District, Santa Rita Union School District and Soledad Unified School District are undergoing a compliance review. The department’s Civil Rights Division said the review pertains to “instruction on sexual orientation and gender ideology (SOGI) in grades pre-K-12.”

“This Department of Justice will not tolerate local school authorities trampling on the rights of parents concerning the education of their children,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon.

Officials said the review will examine whether, and to what extent the districts notified the parents of their right to opt their children out of such instruction. In its statement, the agency alleged that San Francisco Unified advised its teachers that neither parental permission nor notification were required to teach or discuss the topics.

The compliance review would also assess policies regarding access to bathrooms, locker rooms and girls’ sports teams based on gender identity rather than biological sex, along with adherence to Title IX, officials said.

“The Supreme Court’s recent decisions in Mahmoud and Mirabelli have put all school districts on notice: policies that keep parents in the dark about sexuality and gender ideology in the classroom must end now,” Dhillon added, citing two recent rulings by the Supreme Court.

In Mahmoud vs. Taylor, the justices last year sided with a group of Maryland parents who challenged their school district’s decision to deny them the ability to opt out their elementary children of instruction featuring storybooks addressing gender identity and sexual orientation.

Earlier this year, in the Mirabelli vs. Bonta case, the justices blocked a California state law that bans parental notification requirements if students change their pronouns or gender expression at school.

According to the California Department of Education, San Francisco is the sixth largest public school district in the state, with about 55,000 students.

The three other districts being investigated are in Monterey County. State records show Soledad Unified serves about 4,600 students in and around Soledad, while Santa Rita Union serves about 1,200 students in a portion of Salinas. Graves Elementary serves about 30 students at one school campus in Salinas.

CBS News Bay Area has reached out to the districts for comment.

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Cellphone footage appears to capture the driver of a moving Tesla snoozing behind the wheel on a Southern California highway Sunday.

The incident, according to the motorist who recorded the footage and sent it to KTLA, occurred in the southbound lanes of Interstate 5 near Camp Pendleton.

In the footage, the driver’s head appears tilted to the right as the vehicle, likely in self-driving mode, traveled down the roadway. Occupants of the vehicle who spotted the sleepy driver can be heard laughing during the ordeal.

The video ends before the driver’s apparent nap does.

This is not the first time Tesla drivers have been caught mid-snooze. As far back as February 2023, video obtained by KTLA showed two separate drivers sleeping behind the wheel in the span of a week, one in Los Angeles and the other in Temecula.

More recently, KTLA’s San Francisco sister station KRON obtained footage of an East Bay driver apparently asleep behind the wheel of a Tesla Model 4 while on Highway 4 in March.

Per Tesla’s guidelines, drivers using the vehicle’s Full Self-Driving mode are required to remain attentive and ready to take control of the car at any moment.

In past incidents, the California Highway Patrol told KTLA that drivers must be awake, conscious and sober to legally operate a moving vehicle.

There have been arrests of drivers filmed sleeping in moving Teslas, though it is unclear whether witnesses in this incident contacted authorities.

The electric vehicle maker has been at the center of numerous controversies but remains the top-selling brand in California for the fourth year in a row. The Tesla Model Y far outsold any other new vehicle in the state in 2025.