AB 2624
CFC OpposesPrivacy for immigration support services providers
CFC Says
CFC opposes AB 2624.
Currently at 2nd Committee, having cleared 3 stages. Hearing in Senate Public Safety Committee tomorrow.
Legislative Progress
CFC's Position Letter
April 20, 2026
The Honorable Nick Schultz, Chair
Assembly Committee on Public Safety
1021 O Street, Suite 7150
Sacramento, CA 95814
Dear Chair Schultz:
On behalf of tens of thousands of constituents, allied organizations, and more than 2,000 churches across California, the California Family Council strongly opposes AB 2624.
AB 2624 Shields Government-Funded Organizations from Public Accountability
This bill extends California's address confidentiality program to employees and volunteers of immigration services organizations, many of which receive substantial government funding. Organizations that administer public money do not carry the same privacy expectations as private citizens. Wrapping these entities in a legal secrecy shield removes a fundamental check on how taxpayer dollars are spent.
The bill's prohibition on posting personal information or images online, using a "reasonable fear" intent standard, is dangerously vague. Courts have consistently held that publishing truthful information about matters of public concern receives strong First Amendment protection. The bill's $10,000 per-violation penalty structure creates precisely the chilling effect on protected speech and investigative journalism that the Constitution does not permit.
This bill continues a troubling Sacramento pattern: extending the confidentiality framework from abortion providers, to gender clinic workers, and now to immigration nonprofit staff. Each expansion uses the same template to insulate ideologically favored organizations from outside scrutiny. The committee should reject this escalating pattern.
Finally, suppressing legitimate accountability journalism ultimately harms the vulnerable immigrants these organizations claim to serve. If public funds are being misused, the public has every right to know. AB 2624 protects institutions, not people.
For these reasons, California Family Council respectfully opposes AB 2624.
Respectfully,
Greg Burt
Vice President
California Family Council
Official Description
Existing law authorizes designated health care services providers, employees, volunteers, and patients, and individuals who face threats of violence or violence or harassment from the public because of their affiliation with a designated health care services facility, to complete an application to be approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of enabling state and local agencies to respond to requests for public records without disclosing a program participant’s residence address contained in any public record and otherwise provide for confidentiality of identity for that person, subject to specified conditions. Existing law defines “designated health care services” to mean gender-affirming health care services or reproductive health care services. Under existing law, any person who makes a false statement in an application is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law prohibits a person, business, or association from knowingly publicly posting or publicly displaying, disclosing, or distributing on internet websites or on social media, the personal information or image of any designated health care services patient, provider, or assistant, or other individuals residing at the same home address, with the intent to incite a third person to cause imminent great bodily harm to the person identified in the posting or display, or to a coresident of that person, as specified, or to threaten the person identified in the posting or display, or a coresident of that person, as specified. Existing law additionally prohibits a person, business, or association from soliciting, selling, or trading on the internet or social media the personal information or image of a designated health care services patient, provider, or assistant with the intent described above. Existing law establishes a cause of action for injunctive or declarative relief for a violation of these prohibitions. Existing law prohibits a person from posting on the internet or social media, with the intent that another person imminently use that information to commit a crime involving violence or a threat of violence against a designated health care services patient, provider, or assistant, or other individuals residing at the same home address, the personal information or image of a reproductive health care services patient, provider, or assistant, or other individuals residing at the same home address. This bill would similarly establish an address confidentiality program for a designated immigration support services provider, employee, or volunteer, as defined, who faces threats of violence or harassment from the public because of their affiliation with a designated immigration support services facility. This bill would additionally prohibit a person, business, or association from soliciting, selling, or trading on the internet the personal information or image of a designated immigration support services provider, employee, or volunteer with the intent described above. The bill would also, among other things, prohibit a person from posting on the internet the personal information or image of a designated immigration support services provider, employee, or volunteer, or other individuals residing at the same home address, with the specific intent that another person imminently use that information to commit a crime involving violence or a threat of violence that is imminently likely to occur against such an individual. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. By imposing new duties on local agencies and creating new crimes, this bill would create a state-mandated local program. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.