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Use of AI in PERB Proceedings
On December 15, 2025, the Board issued Atwater Elementary Teachers Association, CTA/NEA (Garcia) PERB Decision No. 2995E which involved a charging party who relied on generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools in drafting her appeal. In a matter of first impression, the Board issued a precedential decision addressing the use and misuse of AI in PERB filings and denied charging party’s appeal in part because her appeal contained fabricated legal citations. The decision includes a warning that no charge, appeal, response, reply or any other filing before PERB should contain any citations or statements of law, whether provided by AI or any other source, which are fabricated. The Board declined to issue monetary sanctions in this case, but held that inclusion of fabricated cases or statements of law, before any division of PERB, will warrant serious consequences in future cases. Such consequences may include, but are not limited to, striking the filing from the record, dismissal of the charge, or monetary sanctions.