California Governor Gavin Newsom Signs “Stop Nick Shirley Act” into Law – Journalists Can Now Be FINED and JAILED for Uncovering Democrat Fraud

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• echo@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What it does

  Eligible immigration-support service providers, employees, and volunteers can apply through the California Secretary of State for a substitute address rather than using their actual home, work, or school address in relevant public records.

  To qualify, an applicant must be affiliated with a covered immigration-support-services facility and document a relevant threat, harassment, or violence within the preceding year. Covered settings can include nonprofit organizations, legal clinics, law offices, and health facilities serving immigrants. Online doxxing provision

  The law also creates protections against online publication or trafficking of an enrolled participant’s personal information or identifying image—but it requires a high intent threshold. Liability is not based solely on recording someone, criticizing an organization, or causing subjective discomfort.

  The conduct must involve the legally required specific intent to have someone imminently use the information to commit likely violence or make a threat that produces an objectively reasonable fear for personal safety. Remedies may include injunctions or declaratory relief, attorney fees, and damages—up to three times actual damages, with a $4,000 minimum in the reported final-version description. What it does not do

  Based on the enacted bill’s descriptions and reporting:

  • It does not broadly ban public filming.
  • It does not create protection for every immigration-related organization or worker automatically.
  • It does not apply unless an individual enrolls in and is certified by Safe at Home.
  • It does not make ordinary investigative reporting unlawful absent the statute’s required harmful intent.

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