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Read. Follow. Verify.California AB 2624 extends address confidentiality and anti-doxing protections to immigration support services providers
Record date · August 22, 2026
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What This Bill Would Do
Starting October 1, 2027, this bill expands the state's to include immigration support services providers, employees, and volunteers who face threats or harassment. It also prohibits the online sale, solicitation, or malicious posting of their personal information or images to incite violence.
This measure provides a legal mechanism for immigration support workers to keep their home addresses off public records and creates new criminal penalties for those who dox them to incite violence, directly impacting the safety and privacy of these workers.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Immigration support services providers
They become eligible for address confidentiality and gain legal protections against the online distribution of their personal information.
Local agencies
They must manage new public record requests under the expanded address confidentiality program.
Key Facts
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What Does AB 2624 Actually Do?
Lo que debes saber sobre la nueva ley de privacidad de California que se convirtió en un punto de conflicto sobre la libertad de expresión
Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2624, which allows individuals providing legal or support services to immigrants to keep their home addresses confidential through the state's Safe at Home program. The law also prohibits the intentional online publication of a participant's personal information with the intent to incite physical harm, punishable by fines of up to $4,000.
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6 versions on fileOfficial version history is partial: 6 linked texts are unavailable or incomplete. Source links remain available below.
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Lobbying Activity
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Expansion of existing privacy framework
The bill mirrors existing protections for health care workers, signaling a legislative trend to extend address confidentiality to other high-risk service sectors.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance65How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy40Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz25Current news / social attention level
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