WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 15: Conservative YouTuber and influencer Nick Shirley records during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on exposing fraud in Dirksen Senate Office Building on July 15, 2026 in Washington, DC. CEO of O’Keefe Media Group James O'Keefe and Acting Vice-President of Policy and Government Affairs at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette also testified about various fraud schemes uncovered across the U.S. (Credit: Photo by Finn Gomez/Getty Images)
SACRAMENTO — Workers and volunteers at nonprofits that help immigrants navigate the legal system will eventually be allowed to keep their home addresses out of public records, under a bill Gov. Gavin Newsom signed on Saturday, Aug. 22. Assembly Bill 2624 folds that category of worker into California's Safe at Home program, an address-secrecy system that has covered domestic-violence survivors since 1999 and was later widened to include reproductive- and gender-affirming-care staff.
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