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Newsom signs package of California bills to limit immigration enforcement near schools, hospitals and public spaces
Summary
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed five bills at a Los Angeles event that supporters say will keep ICE off school campuses, restrict masked enforcement, bar secret-police tactics in hospitals and require notifications to families; four took effect immediately and the anti-masking measure is scheduled for Jan. 2026.
At an event at Miguel Contreras Elementary School in Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed five bills Wednesday that state leaders said will limit federal immigration enforcement near schools, hospitals and other public spaces and protect immigrants’ access to services.
The package includes AB 49, the California Safe Haven Schools Act, which authors and supporters said will bar ICE from school campuses and prohibit sharing student data with enforcement agencies. “Keep ICE out of our schools,” Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, chair of the Assembly Education Committee, told the audience.
The measures also include SB 81 (protections for health-care settings and providers), SB 98 (notification to families when immigration enforcement is nearby), SB 805 (measures to prevent vigilante or unmarked enforcement activity) and SB 627 (an anti-masking provision aimed at forcing federal agents to identify themselves). Gov. Newsom said four of the bills go into effect immediately upon his signature and the anti-masking law will take effect in…
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