Gavin Newsom Signs Law Dubbed ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ Days After YouTuber Was Confronted With Crude Sign
Newsom signed AB 2624 two days after a staffer mocked a reporter at the Capitol. The new shield is for immigration NGOs. The fine starts at $4,000.
Summary
- The Daily Caller reports Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 2624 on Aug. 22, adding immigration-support workers to California's Safe at Home program, which issues substitute addresses so home locations stay off public records.
- The signing came days after a Democratic staffer, identified in coverage as Schanz, confronted YouTuber Nick Shirley at the Capitol with a crude personal insult. Multiple complaints against Schanz reached legislative HR, KCRA reported.
- Under the law, posting a covered worker's image or personal details to incite violence starts at $4,000 in damages plus costs, with no cap stated there. Posting with intent that someone commit a violent crime can mean a fine up to $10,000 and up to a year in jail.
- Democratic Assemblywoman Mia Bonta introduced the bill in February, saying 'immigrant service providers are living in fear.' Republicans branded the measure the 'Stop Nick Shirley Act' and said it protects NGO staff over taxpayers chasing fraud.
Commentary
A taxpayer in a vinyl DMV chair still waits on a number and wonders why the nonprofit that processed the case gets a ghost address while his own house sits on the assessor map.
That is the gap. Four. Thousand. Dollars. To start. Ten thousand and a year if the post is charged as intent. A staffer heckled a reporter at the Capitol. The governor answered with a shield for the shops that handle the caseload. Safe at Home was built for beaten spouses. It now covers the intake desk.
Ask every Californian who cannot hide a driveway: if exposure of an NGO address is the crime, who audits the fraud?
Comments
A substitute address is a tool. Handing it to the intake shop is a muzzle.
I filed FOIAs. A ghost PO box is how a grant disappears. Keep the audit trail.
True threats are already crimes. A $4,000 starter fine for a post is a speech tax.
Allied cities do not rename a privacy bill after the reporter they want quiet.
Watch who introduced it in February. Grant shops feared cameras more than cartels.
My address is on the water bill. Theirs just got a state alias. That is the tell.
If a YouTuber filming fraud is the emergency, the emergency is the film, not the fraud.
Cartels love a state that hides the middlemen. Publish the grants. Keep the homes of real victims.
Daily Caller printed AB 2624, Aug. 22, $4,000, $10,000, and Bonta. Argue those nouns.
Audit the NGOs. Protect actual abuse victims. Stop fining the camera.
