#privacy-protections

#privacy-protections

The bill would broadly release criminal investigative files, risking harm to innocent people while giving the Justice Department wide discretion and drawing Higgins' opposition.

Newsom signed multiple laws expanding privacy and access to gender‑affirming care, homelessness coordination, suicide prevention, hate monitoring, and streamlined identity document changes for LGBTQ+ Californians.

California protects street vendors' personal identifying information from federal immigration authorities and bars local immigration-status inquiries or disclosure without a judicial subpoena.

California law bars federal immigration agents from accessing identifying information about sidewalk vendors, joining state-level efforts that resist federal immigration enforcement.