#privacy-protections

#privacy-protections

Newsom signed multiple laws expanding privacy and access to gender‑affirming care, homelessness coordination, suicide prevention, hate monitoring, and streamlined identity document changes for LGBTQ+ Californians.

California protects street vendors' personal identifying information from federal immigration authorities and bars local immigration-status inquiries or disclosure without a judicial subpoena.

California law bars federal immigration agents from accessing identifying information about sidewalk vendors, joining state-level efforts that resist federal immigration enforcement.