California democrats propose act protecting immigration support services

AB 2624: Privacy for immigration support services providers.

This bill would similarly establish an address confidentiality program for a designated immigration support services provider, employee, or volunteer, as defined, who faces threats of violence or harassment from the public because of their affiliation with a designated immigration support services facility. This bill would additionally prohibit a person, business, or association from soliciting, selling, or trading on the internet or social media the personal information or image of a designated immigration support services provider, employee, or volunteer with the intent described above. The bill would also prohibit a person from posting on the internet or social media, internet, as described above, the personal information or image of a designated immigration support services provider, employee, or volunteer, or other individuals residing at the same home address. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. By imposing new duties on local agencies and creating new crimes, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.

https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2624

Discussed in hearing April 7, 2026

'Assembly Standing Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection'

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"Thank you. I wanna start by thanking the chair and committee for working with my office. I accept the committee amendments. AB 2624 expands Californian's safe at home program to include immigrant service providers, their employees, and volunteers. This program allows participants to keep their home and work addresses out of public records, giving them a critical layer of protection and privacy in an environment where their personal safety is increasingly at risk."

"Individuals who provide immigrant support services include including legal aid, humanitarian relief, case management, and advocacy are facing targeted harassment. This is not hypothetical. Advocates and workers are receiving death threats, being targeted at courthouses, and facing coordinated online docs and campaigns, even facing this vitriol at their homes. These threats have risen sharply in 2025 and are expected to continue due to the current political climate. At the same time, personal information is increasingly easy to access."

Bill AB 2624 'Privacy for immigration support services providers.'

"The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) Persons providing support services to the immigrant community have been subject to harassment, threats, and intimidation for their work. (b) Persons working in the organizations that provide immigration support services have faced doxxing, courthouse targeting, online harassment, anti-immigrant vigilante threats, and coordinated campaigns and death threats. These acts have risen to alarming levels in 2025 and will continue due to the current federal administrations anti-immigration attitude and policies."

https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2624

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"The California Attorney General's office has stated the state is often the victim of fraud and has recovered over billion in various schemes over the past 10 years." - Fox

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Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 2, § 61104 - Fraud

"Fraud" means a type of illegal act involving obtaining something of value through willful misrepresentation. Whether an act constitutes a fraud is a determination to be made through a judicial or other adjudicative system, but the State Auditor may disclose facts that support a legal claim of fraud.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/california/2-CCR-61104

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