Public-records privacy / address confidentiality
AB 2624 would shield immigration aid workers’ home addresses
If approved, the protection would keep agencies from disclosing a participant’s residence address in public records. The measure also covers family members living at the same address.
California’s bill would add immigration support services providers to an existing state privacy system. That could make it harder for threats or harassment to follow people home.
- California would extend an address-confidentiality program to immigration support workers.
- The protection would keep home addresses out of public records if approved.
- Existing law already uses the same model for some health care workers and patients.
- False statements in the application would still be a misdemeanor.
- California would create a new privacy shield for immigration support services providers, giving them a way to keep home addresses and identity details out of public records when safety is a concern
California would create a new privacy shield for immigration support services providers, giving them a way to keep home addresses and identity details out of public records when safety is a concern. AB 2624 is titled Privacy for immigration support services providers, and it would fold those workers into an existing state confidentiality system. The point is straightforward: make it harder for threats, harassment or retaliation to follow people home.
A familiar safety valve
The bill does not build a brand-new program from scratch. Instead, it plugs immigration support services providers into a model California already uses for people who face targeted harm. Under current law, designated health care services providers, employees, volunteers, patients and some others can ask the Secretary of State to approve an application that keeps a residence address out of public records.
The same framework also makes a false statement in the application a misdemeanor. AB 2624 would add immigration support services providers to that structure, using the state’s existing rules for confidentiality rather than inventing a separate process.
What privacy would cover
If approved, the protection would matter most when state and local agencies respond to records requests. The goal is to stop a participant’s residence address from showing up in public records and to limit how far personal information can travel once a record exists. That can matter not just for the worker, but for family members or others who share the same home.
The bill is narrow in a deliberate way. It is about privacy and safety for people doing immigration support work, not about immigration enforcement itself. Recorded votes show the bill cleared a floor vote.