SB 2335 would hold the parent of a minor criminally responsible for acts or omissions that contribute or tend to contribute to criminal actions of the minor. The act or omissions do not have to be intentional.
This bill is likely unconstitutional under existing MS Supreme Court precedent which only allows parental liability for a minor’s actions when the parent’s actions or omissions contributed to the harm and the parent was on notice of the likelihood of harm or the parent’s action/omission was reasonably foreseeable to lead to the child’s harm.
It is also unconstitutionally vague, providing no definition of the "acts or omissions" nor what “tends to contribute” means.
