California governor Jerry Brown
Public schools in California can no longer use “Redskins” as a team name or mascot, after Governor Jerry Brown signed a contested bill into law Sunday.
Four public high schools in California currently use the name and mascot, and will have until 2017 to find a replacement. Assemblymember Luis Alejo, who authored the bill that passed through the Assembly 60-10, with ten abstaining, said in a news release that California is now the first state to pass a law specifically banning the term “Redskins” as a “school or athletic team name, mascot, or nickname.