Bill > AB2624

This bill establishes an address confidentiality program starting October 1, 2027, administered by the Secretary of State, to protect individuals who provide support services to the immigrant community—such as legal representation, advocacy, and health care—and who face public threats, harassment, or violence because of their work. Under this program, eligible providers, employees, and volunteers can use a designated substitute address on public records, real property documents, and when registering to vote, thereby keeping their actual residential and workplace addresses confidential from public disclosure. To provide context, this legislation responds to rising levels of doxxing, courthouse targeting, and death threats directed at immigration support workers amid heightened anti-immigration sentiment and policies. Additionally, the bill prohibits individuals, businesses, and associations from knowingly posting, displaying, soliciting, selling, or trading the personal information or images of these immigration support workers on the internet with the specific intent to incite imminent great bodily harm or issue true threats that place them in reasonable fear for their safety. Violating these online posting prohibitions or making false statements on program applications can result in civil lawsuits for damages, injunctions, and attorney's fees, or criminal penalties classified as misdemeanors, which are crimes punishable by county jail time or fines.