Nationally known expert and former FBI agent Mike German testified at today’s hearing: Unfortunately the policies that might protect Americans from this kind of intelligence abuse have yet to catch up.

It’s time for CA to meet the moment! 8/

and it will require reports, collected the AG, on what all six "Fusion Centers" do and the types of information they collect & share 7/

SB 1095 will expose the truth about what’s happening behind fusion centers’ closed doors AND protect Californians from abuses. It will protect our sensitive personal information from being used for racial profiling or ICE abductions 6/

"Fusion Centers" have access to info from license plate readers, social media, DMV, and so many other sources. Who is the room? How is this used? If ICE gets this data into the claws of its massive surveillance machine, they’ll use it to carry out even more abductions. 5/

Documents Reveal ICE Using Driver Location Data From Local Police for Deportations | ACLU

Fusion centers are also improperly laundering information to ICE. Emails released back in 2019 revealed “a years-long relationship between an ICE officer and a detective in a fusion center” in Orange County, CA. They may really be “data deportation centers” 4/ www.aclu.org/news/immigra...

Ending Fusion Center Abuses The federal government provides state and local intelligence hubs with funding, personnel, and database access — all without adequate oversight.

What we know:
They’ve spied on people exercising free speech.
Targeted Black Lives Matter protesters and Pro-Choice advocates.
Often singled out American Muslims for unwarranted scrutiny. Distributed error-filled reports.
See @brennancenter.org's www.brennancenter.org/our-work/pol... 3/

The state surveillance centers feeding info to the federal government | Opinion State fusion centers, including two in Sacramento, collect and share mass surveillance data with federal agencies, risking civil liberties.

You’ve probably never heard of a “Fusion Center.” But a Fusion Center has probably heard of you 👀 They operate largely in secret and collect a terrifying amount of our private data: who we are, where we go, what we do, who we know. 2/

www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...

BREAKING: SB 1095, "Expose Data Deportation Centers," by @senatorsrp.bsky.social just PASSED out of the CA Senate's Privacy Committee!

We're proud to co-sponsor this bill, the first-EVER in CA to seek transparency and accountability from secretive, shadowy entities known as “Fusion Centers.” 1/

"An ICE officer fired a shot before Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez moved his vehicle after being stopped Tuesday morning in Patterson, a witness said."

CC: @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov

We're horrified and outraged by ICE's shooting of Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez. We hope he’ll make a full recovery and are keeping his family in our thoughts.

AG @robbonta.bsky.social MUST investigate the Turlock PD's possible collusion with ICE - AND the shooting itself.

Our full statement ⬇️

That video from SF Airport is outrageous.
Local or state police should have ZERO role aiding n abetting that violence.
#IceOutOfAirports
@iceoutofca.bsky.social

NEWS #KTVU: Community groups demand answers from SFPD, seen in viral ICE video at SFO

www.ktvu.com/video/fmc-c2...

🚨 NEW REPORT: ICE transfers in Orange County aren’t slowing down, they are increasing.
A recent Harbor Institute report finds the OC Sheriff’s Department transferred 239 community members to ICE in 2025, continuing a steady year-over-year increase.

#ICEOut #AbolishICE #OrangeCounty

12/ AB 1537 will help us get ANSWERS.

It will bring needed transparency and create a clear statewide standard that will close this loophole.

Onward!

11/ There are so many questions here that deserve public scrutiny.

Are any local officers already moonlighting as ICE agents?

Have any local officers been involved with mass deportations through participation with the Coast Guard or other DHS agencies?

10/ At this point, we know ICE can use any space it rents or owns to detain people in horrendous conditions, including children.

Running a business that cleans the floors of an ICE detention camp is immoral. Full stop.

[Excerpt from letter from several LEA associations to Public Safety chair.] "For example, a police officer who owns a small office cleaning company would be barred from contracting with a subcontractor of DHS that rents office space to ICE. Does this really make sense?"

9/ Meanwhile, in this letter from several different police and sheriff associations, there’s an oddly specific example.

$750k grant for BART had strings attached: ICE cooperation Under court order, FEMA stopped requiring security grantees to collaborate with immigration enforcement on Oct. 21.

8/ Again, DHS agencies are now inseparable from mass deportations. Consider FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which tried to force grantees to agree to collaborate with ICE as a condition for receiving funding! oaklandside.org/2025/11/03/f...

Noem’s focus on meeting the Trump administration’s deportation quotas appears poised to further impact Coast Guard operations in the coming months, according to new guidance recently issued to Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento this year. Based on DHS priorities, the air station, which is among those responsible for a majority of deportation flights, has designated its first priority to be the transport of detained immigrants on its C-27 aircraft within the U.S., according to multiple U.S. officials familiar with the orders. The new orders moved search-and-rescue operations, which have long been the Coast Guard’s core mission, to a lower priority, the officials familiar with the orders said. They said counternarcotics efforts and Coast Guard training are prioritized above search-and-rescue operations.

7/ Noem's new orders have moved search and rescue to a LOWER priority. And NBC reports that Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento is "among those responsible for a majority of deportation flights" !!

Under Noem’s leadership, more than 750 Coast Guard flights have been redirected from regular missions such as maritime patrols and search-and-rescue efforts, to instead fly detained immigrants to deportation hubs, according to ICE Flight Monitor. Coast Guard flights carrying immigrants jumped last year from 14 in June to 149 in November, according to the group.

6/ NBC reports that Noem has overseen “a tenfold increase in the use of the Coast Guard's aircraft for immigrant deportations.” The numbers are staggering - 750 flights redirected!

Under Trump, Noem, and Steven Miller, ALL agencies of DHS are becoming inseparable from ICE.

Noem's use of Coast Guard resources strains her relationship with the military branch, sources say Some early decisions by the homeland security secretary, including to divert Coast Guard resources from a search-and-rescue mission to the deportation of immigrants, set the tone early.

5/ The LAPPL also mentions a lot of officers are involved in the Coast Guard Reserve, which is part of DHS, ICE’s parent agency.

This new article by NBC News on how DHS is diverting the Coast Guard to assist mass deportations is a must-read! www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

"United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) - ICE promotes homeland security and public safety through the criminal and civil enforcement of federal laws governing the border."

4/ The LA Police Protective League begins its letter listing out each of the agencies that make up the Dept of Homeland Security. Here’s how they describe ICE.

The agency terrorizing ppl across the country “promotes public safety”???

For independently elected sheriffs, constitutional officers accountable directly to voters of California's 58 counties, this represents an unwarranted intrusion into local governance and operational decision-making.

3/ So according to the San Bernardino Sheriff, every single Sheriff should set their own policy on exactly when and how a deputy could take a side job working for ICE to abduct our neighbors?

[SB Sheriff opposition letter] Existing law already provides sheriffs and police chiefs with broad authority to review, approve, condition, or deny secondary employment based on conflicts of interest, liability exposure, operational readiness, and public trust. AB 1537 overrides that framework with a statewide prohibition, removing discretion from locally elected sheriffs and municipal leaders and replacing professional judgement with a one-size-fits-all mandate.

2/ San Bernardino Sheriff Shannon Dicus complains the bill would be “removing discretion” from his dept and others.

“Discretion” and “local control” for what, exactly?

For deputies to take a second job separating families or working in a detention camp?

The No Side Jobs for ICE Act (AB 1537) is common sense: local law enforcement shouldn’t moonlight for ICE or other agencies abducting our neighbors.

Why are some police and sheriff associations OPPOSING this legislation?

We need to uncover the truth 🧵

This bill would close a loophole in state law and prevent local and state law enforcement from taking side jobs with ICE, DHS, or other entities, like private corporations, engaged in abducting our neighbors. We are proud to co-sponsor this bill 2/

Breaking: AB 1537 by Asm. Isaac Bryan, the No Side Jobs for ICE Act, has PASSED out of the Assembly Public Safety Committee!

Thank you to Asm. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social, to the committee members who voted “aye,” and all who supported! 1/

Gov. Newsom @governor.ca.gov your state prison system uses racial profiling to gamble w/ppl’s lives. You’ve turned over to ICE U.S. citizens, DV survivors; ppl who’ve earned release who want to give back.

P.S. free advice: stop trying to sound like Ben Shapiro. That interview was humiliating.

A farm worker holding up a sign saying: solidarity with Minnesota

Farm workers in solidarity with Minnesota!

¡Campesinos en solidaridad con Minnesota!

#IceOut

#ICEoutofCalifornia