Immigration Agent Mask Prohibition in California Law


The legislator stands in front of a microphone while talking in a room full of other legislators sitting at their desks. The desks are decorated with small American flags. The room is decorated with mint green and beige bodies.
The Sport of the Assembly Juan Carrilo spoke during a session of the State Capitol in Sacramento on August 21, 2025. Photo from Fred Greaves for CalMatters

After a summer, characterized by masked federal agents retaining immigrants in Los Angeles, California’s legislation adopted two measures on Thursday, which seek to force law enforcement officers.

The bills of the Senate 627 and 805 were among the most notorious, who passed in the last days of this year’s legislative session. They would ban locals, outside the countries and federal law enforcement officers of Supporting facial coversas well as requires employees to be easily recognizablerespectively.

  • State Seni. WienerDemocrat from San Francisco and lead author of the SB 627: “As we pass through this terrifying era of mass deportation and Supreme Court, which allows this authoritarian regime to do whatever it wants to do – including including Right racial profiling of Latin American people – California must lead and stop in the secret police. “

The measures crossed party lines, such as Republicans in opposition. Police unions also oppose the proposed ban on the mask.

  • Goop sen. Tony Strickland Huntington Beach, in a statement: “This is a reckless proposal to implement the law that puts law enforcement officers and their families at a real risk, undermining the safety of men and women who boldly protect our communities.”

Although today it should be the last day of the session, legislators are expected to extend their work on Saturday to give final votes to some deals at the last moment they have achieved this week. Those who pass will head to the Gavor News’ desk for his signature or veto, and those who are not dead for the year.

Other suggestions that await Newsom’s decision include:

  • Higher car sales fees: SB 791 would raise CAP CAR dealers can charge for processing documents From $ 85 to $ 260S
  • Protect abortion pills: AB 260 would help protect California pharmacists, doctors and hospitals from penalties for MIFEPRISTON’s abortion pill allocate to patients outside the state and elimination of patient names and suppliers from abortion medicines.
  • Kill Mute Swans: AB 764 would make it easier for hunters and landowners to kill invasiveS
  • Save the bees: AB 1042 would create a health program for managed honey bees that would provide grants to beekeepers, farmers and more for projects and research Supporting the struggling populationS

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Google pulls the strings behind the scenes

A sloping view of a person's silhouette as they walk in front of the gray building with the Google logo in the front, on a clear day.
A man passed by a Google Campus building in Mountain View on November 12, 2015. Photo by Jeff Chiu, AP Photo

As one of the best to lobby California last year, Google has poured millions of dollars to influence the government’s government. But his involvement in some suggestions is not always clear, emphasizing the theft ways in which the technological giant tries to form policiesReport CalMatters’ Harry Johnson and Yue Stella YuS

He quietly orchestrated a California proposed campaign and was so steal that legislators did not see the company’s fingerprints until Calmatters informed them.

In April, the company began to turn to small business using emails lists by calling them to sign a petition opposed to a measure that will require browsers to give way to users to say websites automatically not to share their personal information With third parties.

However, this propaganda campaign did not seem to be coming directly from Google, but more recently the “related trading advice”, which Google supports financially. Google himself has never taken a public position on the measure.

Although Google’s tactics are not illegal, it causes concern among some defenders who are critical of Big Tech’s influence.

  • Brandon ForesterOrganizer of non -profit media.

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Less food, more solar energy

Air views of a solar farm in the farmland with a mountain range spread on the horizon in the distance.
Air view of a solar farm on the property for growing and processing of WOLF outside Huron on August 29, 2025. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/Catchlight Local

In sections of the San Joaquin Valley, which rarely receive enough water to grow food, farmers and ranches facing fruitless, dried land, have the opportunity to generate a new crop: solar energy. But a bill that aims to encourage more farmers to install solar panels Divide the farmerswrites Calmatters’ Rachel BeckerS

According to a 60-year law known as the Williamson Act, farmers can conclude contracts with local authorities that allow them to pay less than their ownership tax as long as they use their land for agriculture. To cancel the contract before the end of its time leads to steep penalty fees.

But AB 1156If accepted, it would allow farmers to stop contracts and avoid fees if they use their land to capture solar energy, although their ownership tax will still increase. The bill will help the state achieve its clean energy goals, as the generation of solar energy requires hundreds of thousands of acres.

Although some farmers welcome alternative use for their dried land, others claim that the bill undermines agricultural regions and stops in the neighboring economies that help the agricultural industry operate.

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