Activists tied to last summer’s anti-deportation riots in California successfully lobbied for a new state law advertised as protecting nonprofit groups from threats or harassment.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) signed Assembly Bill 2624 on Saturday, allowing immigration services groups’ addresses to be shielded from public records and criminalizing publishing their information with the intent to incite threats against them. The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, or CHIRLA, co-sponsored and testified for the bill before the state legislature passed it to the governor’s desk. The taxpayer-funded charity drew Republican scrutiny after its “Los Angeles Rapid Response Network” led to a union leader’s arrest that sparked fiery protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in June 2025.
