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A Yolo County judge ordered Davis Moms for Liberty activist and school board candidate Beth Bourne to remove two social media videos showing a child protected by a Davis parent’s civil restraining order.
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The order Tuesday by visiting Yolo Superior Court Judge David Rosenberg, first reported by the Davis Enterprise newspaper, concerned videos Bourne posted showing parent Jessica Murray’s daycare provider at a local park with Murray’s children playing in the background.
Murray filed a civil harassment restraining order in Yolo Superior Court earlier this summer, according to the Enterprise. The order was later amended to demand that two dozen videos believed to have been posted by Bourne be removed from several platforms, the Davis newspaper reported.
Rosenberg ordered two of the videos removed at Tuesday’s hearing but stayed the order for 30 days to allow Bourne’s attorney, Jesse Franklin-Murdock, to pursue appellate review of the decision on free speech grounds.
Murray alleged that Bourne posted videos, threatened to repost more videos, and “liked” the disputed content, eliciting online comments that Murray said threatened her, her children, and their daycare.
Some of the comments, Murray said, sought to identify her children and the location of their daycare so people could confront the daycare, the Enterprise reported.
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Franklin-Murdock argued Tuesday that removing the videos could potentially harm Bourne’s ability to defend herself in a separate criminal case filed last week by Yolo prosecutors, the Enterprise reported. Bourne faces an Oct. 19 arraignment in Woodland on two misdemeanor charges alleging she violated the restraining order in June.
Bourne, who chairs the Yolo County chapter of Moms for Liberty, is running for the Davis Joint Unified School District Board and has been a frequent critic of school policies involving transgender students. She drew widespread attention in 2025 when she disrobed during a school board meeting while questioning the district’s transgender policies.
In a statement to The Bee on Wednesday, Franklin-Murdock said he was “pleased” with the Yolo judge’s ruling.
“Ms. Murray asked for the takedown of twenty-two videos, and the court confirmed that 20 may remain up,” the statement read. “We further believe Judge Rosenberg’s ruling should and will pave the way for the prompt dismissal of the misdemeanor charges against Ms. Bourne, which should never have been brought in the first place. We are exploring all options regarding an appeal related to the two posts Judge Rosenberg ordered removed.”
Franklin-Murdock, in comments to The Bee last week, called the DA’s criminal complaint “boilerplate,” with no details of Bourne engaging in any criminal conduct. The attorney vowed to “defend this case vigorously” in court.
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