While in her role as attorney general of California, Kamala Harris did a lot of unsettling things — so many that the public has memory-holed a few of them. One of those was the time her office mandated charities turn over a list of their donors who’d contributed $5,000 or more to the state.
It was a blatant privacy violation that quickly turned into a matter of free speech. Between 2012 and 2021, over 1,700 Schedule B forms were inadvertently posted on a public website by the state, exposing donor information. Most of those leaks just “happened to” contain donors of conservative organizations in the state. Those leaks then led to harassment and threats of violence targeted at the funders of organizations such as Americans for Prosperity and the Thomas More Law Center.
