Governor Newsom signs laws to protect school children and hospital patients, and limit fear tactics used by Trump’s secret police force to terrorize communities

What you need to know: Governor Newsom signed the nation's strongest protections into law to limit tactics being used by Trump's federal "secret police," protect children at schools, and patients in public hospitals from Trump's lawlessness.

LOS ANGELES - Standing alongside leaders of communities terrorized by Trump's lawless raids across Southern California, Governor Gavin Newsom today signed a groundbreaking package of bills to respond to federal overreach and push back against Trump and Stephen Miller's "secret police" tactics in California. The new laws make California the first state in the nation to prohibit federal law enforcement officers, including ICE, from hiding their identities, and make it less likely that federal immigration enforcement officers target children in classrooms and patients in hospitals.

"Public safety depends on trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve - but Trump and Miller have shattered that trust and spread fear across America. California is putting an end to it and making sure schools and hospitals remain what they should be: places of care, not chaos."

Governor Gavin Newsom

"Our places of learning and healing must never be turned into the hunting grounds this federal administration has tried to make them out to be. I have sat with mothers who are afraid to send their children to school, and with farmworker families who live every day with the fear of being torn apart. No family should ever have to carry that weight. California is choosing true public safety. We are implementing the strongest laws in the nation to protect our residents and rejecting this despicable fear. I could not be more proud."

First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom