California lawmakers killed two bipartisan bills that would have exposed $540M in lobbying influence, advanced AB 2624 to let immigration nonprofits sue journalists for naming their staff, and let state court rulings erode pretrial detention — leaving the public blind to who's spending the money, barred from scrutinizing who's spending it, and exposed to the consequences.
Read Top Post →San Francisco’s homicides doubled pace by mid-May 2026 even as property crime kept falling — and the root cause traces back to Sacramento. CA Supreme Court rulings in Humphrey and Harris gutted pretrial detention tools, leaving SF unable to hold high-risk defendants before trial. The city that clawed back public safety through local elections is now watching state-level decisions undo the progress, one body at a time.
May 29, 2026 · 7 min
Assemblywoman Mia Bonta’s AB 2624 cleared the Public Safety Committee 7-2, creating a $4,000-per-violation penalty for publishing the names or images of immigration nonprofit workers — with no press exemption. The bill extends Safe at Home protections built for domestic violence victims to anyone doing “advocacy” or “referrals” for immigrants. Sacramento won’t let you see who’s lobbying lawmakers, and now it wants to fine you for reporting on who’s spending public money.
May 01, 2026 · 5 min
