NGO Tied to LA Anti-ICE Riots & Rapid Response

We’ve been reporting on California’s AB 2624, dubbed by Republican Asm. Carl DeMaio as the “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” which might criminalize posting even a picture of an worker or volunteer of a taxpayer-funded group offering “immigration support services” – basically making any investigative journalism focusing on these teams unlawful.

Authored by Asm. Mia Bonta, the spouse of California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta, the invoice is sponsored by none other than the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), the group CrimsonState outed in June 2025 as offering vital assist for that month’s anti-ICE riots.

In addition to their Marxist indoctrination teams and “fighting for immigrants’ rights,” CHIRLA spearheads anti-ICE Rapid Response Networks throughout California. As half of that community, members post photographs of ICE brokers, the automobiles getting used, and real-time places of ICE raids/immigration enforcement efforts. This community is accountable for the violent response to an ICE raid at Glass House Farms in Camarillo, CA, last July.

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Under AB 2624 (emphasis mine):

An individual, business, or affiliation shall not knowingly publicly post or publicly show, disclose, or distribute on the web the personal info or image of any designated immigration assist providers supplier, worker, or volunteer, or other people residing at the same home tackle, with the intent to do either of the next:

(A) Incite a third individual to trigger imminent great bodily hurt to the designated immigration assist providers supplier, worker, or volunteer recognized in the posting or show, or to a coresident of that individual, where the third individual is probably going to commit this hurt.

(B) Threaten the designated immigration assist providers supplier, worker, or volunteer recognized in the posting or show, or a coresident of that individual, in a method that locations the individual recognized or the coresident in objectively affordable concern for their personal security.

Anyone posting somebody’s personal info publicly or online with a clear and unequivocal intent to have that individual harassed or attacked is in the fallacious. But there’s a big distinction between that and what Bonta and CHIRLA are pushing, and there’s no purpose people working for “immigrant services” suppliers ought to have more safety than anybody else.

And it is even worse when you perceive that “personal information” contains their work tackle and “information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with” that individual, that “image” means “a photograph, video footage, sketch, or computer-generated image that provides a means to visually identify the person depicted, and that 
“designated immigration assist providers” means “services provided to the immigrant population, including, but not limited to, legal representation, legal assistance, advocacy, case management, humanitarian relief, immigration resources, referrals, translation services, counseling services, and health care.”

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That means that merely by posting a picture of Angelica Salas, CHIRLA’s govt director, in my story right here at CrimsonState and linking to CHIRLA’s web site, which has its workplace tackle, as I did last 12 months, I might be fined $10,000 and sentenced to up to a 12 months in county jail. Sure, they’ve to show intent, but we all know that in Gavin Newsom’s California, the courts would simply discover that a conservative journalist had intent.

And if Salas was bodily attacked by somebody after I posted her image, I might be fined $50,000 and sentenced to up to a 12 months in county jail.

A thread I posted last summer season about Salas’ ties to a number of other California NGOs and her appointment to the state’s Racial Equity Commission, I posted a picture of her husband because he also receives sustenance from the NGO teat. Because he is a “coresident” of Salas’ home, he also receives “victim” standing under the invoice.

At the same time, CHIRLA and its allies are preventing to have ICE brokers unmasked and, through their LA Area Rapid Response Network, they broadcast brokers’ places in real-time to 1000’s of hungry activists.

The penalties do not stop there.

The invoice also permits “victims” of investigative journalism to pursue a civil go well with and be awarded injunctive reduction (i.e., a takedown order) plus attorneys’ charges and prices, and at least $4,000 in restitution without proving any precise damages.

True Purpose of AB 2624 Is to Codify Intimidation & Harassment

We know, though, that there are two true functions for the invoice: 1) to intimidate and silence investigative journalists, and 2) to present legal cowl for the harassment CHIRLA’s associates are already doling out to journalists who dare look into the group’s funds or publicize its misdeeds.

For instance, former Assembly candidate and Ventura County GOP 1st Vice-Chair Lori Mills. (Disclosure: Mills and I’ve been close buddies since 2019.) Mills, her son, and impartial journalist Cam Higby went to CHIRLA’s places of work on February 25, 2026, to ask questions. They have been filming in the public space exterior the building and have been harassed and threatened by staff.

As you possibly can see in the video, CHIRLA’s building is already fairly secure, and despite taking in practically $26 million in taxpayer {dollars} in 2024 (out of $30 million whole income), they do not need outsiders to even enter the foyer.

Mills barely had enough time to get home to Simi Valley (more than an hour’s drive from downtown Los Angeles) when the Conejo Valley Antifascists, a group whose membership overlaps with CHIRLA volunteers, had put out an alert with their photographs.

Mills has been on the receiving end of stalking, doxxing, and threats from leftists since she began talking up about inappropriate content in California’s colleges in 2019, but that elevated as she ran for the California Assembly and began a podcast targeted on exposing fraud and corruption in California. She’s had photographs of her home posted online, been screamed at in public by leftists filming her and wanting for a response, and had to file quite a few police stories associated to violent threats.

Indivisible, CHIRLA, VC Defensa show up to Simi to push the Soros agenda.
We met them. Things received so heated they cleared the room.
We are back in session now. pic.twitter.com/Wb82pyeKhF

— Lori Mills (@LoriMills4CA42) July 22, 2025

But she’s not protected by AB 2624; her harassers are. And for her hassle, if AB 2624 was in impact that day, she might have been subjected to a 12 months in jail plus $14 million in fines, plus her own legal charges.

I’ve my own story to inform (and will inform it in an upcoming installment of this sequence) about being threatened and harassed as a consequence of my reporting on CHIRLA; those threats are the main purpose I’ve been residing in exile in Nevada since last summer season. 

At this time, AB 2624 is still in committee in the California State Assembly; it’s scheduled to be heard in the Assembly Public Safety Committee (whose chair, Asm. Isaac Bryan, is a co-sponsor of the invoice) on Tuesday morning.

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