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The federal courts today approved a temporary injunction against the No Secret Police Act, the mask ban for law enforcement, finding that because the CHP is exempt, the policy is discriminatory and violates the supremacy clause. Senator Scott Weiner, who authored this legislation, needs to amend it to include all agencies to ensure it has a chance of being upheld by the court at the final hearing.
Senator Weiner is considering this a win because, as he explains in a statement, “Based on communications with the Governor’s office, we removed state police from the bill. Now that the Court has made clear that state officers must be included, I am immediately introducing new legislation to include state officers. I will do everything in my power to expedite passage of this adjustment to the No Secret Police Act.” Meanwhile, SB805, the No Vigilantes Act that requires all law enforcement officers to clearly identify themselves, was upheld in the same case.
It was pretty calm this weekend. There was one horrible situation on Saturday in San Diego, where ICE and Border Patrol agents took a father, leaving behind his wife and two-month-old baby.
ICE is still hitting the Inland Empire hard with about 18 people confirmed taken in the first 8 days of February in that area, and we’re also seeing an escalation in San Diego. Here in the L.A. area, although it's been calm for about a week now, we still expect ICE, but we don’t know when. And as for CBP, we have reports of many returning to San Diego and some seen up in Santa Clara. We still don’t know what Tom Homan is planning.