For a time, the refrigerators of some Minneapolis families featured an everyday object bearing a foreboding message: a magnet that reminded children that if they didn’t go to school or obey curfew, they’d be going to court.
The vaguely threatening kitchen decoration was courtesy of the office of Amy Klobuchar, who was the top prosecutor for Minnesota’s most populous county from 1999 to 2007. Klobuchar, now a Democratic U.S. Senator and 2020 presidential candidate, recalled in a 2010 interview with Politico that the magnet was “hot” with parents.
