[Note 1] In 2012, district administrators were sued by the American Civil Liberties Union for deciding to remove the book In Our Mothers’ House by children's author Patricia Polacco from the shelves of their elementary school libraries due to its content about lesbian mothers.

[10] The incident also sparked a three-year investigation into the Davis School District by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).

That investigation found that racial harassment was widespread in the school district and hundreds of complaints were intentionally unaddressed.

[12] The DOJ required the district to create a plan to address the systemic problems moving forward which included changing its policies, offering more training, and creating an equity department for racial discrimination complaints with a director that is approved by the federal government.

[11][13] In 2021, a ten-year-old black girl who attended the District's Foxboro Elementary School committed suicide due to racist bullying, sparking national outcry.