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Tell Your California State Senator

to Vote YES on

SB 1105: The Protect California Rights Act

An Active Bill - Majority Vote Required
In Floor Process in the California Senate

To protect Californians from actions
by DHS, ICE and other Federal Agents such as:
unlawful discrimination,
programs that criminalize protected personal characteristics,
and interfering with constitutionally protected freedom of expression

From Jenny Farrell, Executive Director of the California League of Women Voters:

For more than a century, the League of Women Voters has championed civil rights, democratic participation, and equal justice for all Californians. You can help us protect that vision and progress by helping pass SB 1105 (Perez).

What Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are doing across the country, and right here in California, is deeply troubling.

In addition to sending federal troops onto our streets, the Trump Administration is trying to commandeer state and local police to act through federal task forces. This risks using California resources in ways that support racially discriminatory immigration enforcement activities, violating our laws and threatening our rights.

SB 1105 - the Protect California Rights Act, responds to harms being perpetrated by the Trump Administration and DHS agents, and protects Californians by:

Prohibiting state and local law enforcement agencies from entering into joint task forces or interagency agreements that assist racial or identity profiling, criminalization of speech, or use of unauthorized weapons of war.
Ensuring that California does not give federal law enforcement officers acting beyond their federal jurisdiction broad power to stop and arrest Californians.

California’s law enforcement resources were built by and for California’s communities. They should be directed toward public safety, equal justice, and the protection of constitutional rights - not repurposed to advance a federal enforcement agenda that treats entire communities as suspect. SB 1105 draws that line clearly and firmly.

This Act is currently before the California Senate.

The California League of Women Voters urges you to contact your State Senator and let them know you support this bill.

If you live in Sunnyvale, Contact:

State Senator Aisha Wahab
CA Senate District 10
(includes Sunnyvale)

email: sd10.senate.ca.gov/contact

phone: 916.651.4010

If you live in Cupertino, Contact:

State Senator Josh Becker
CA Senate District 13
(includes Cupertino)

email: sd13.senate.ca.gov/contact

phone: 916.651.4013

Searching for words? Here's a few to borrow:

Dear Senator ______________,

Please vote YES on SB 1105 (Perez).

Our freedoms and rights as Californians have never felt more at risk. In addition to sending federal troops onto our streets, the Trump Administration is trying to commandeer state and local police to act through federal task forces.

This risks using California resources in ways that support racially discriminatory immigration enforcement activities, violating our laws and threatening our rights.

SB 1105, The Protect California Rights Act, responds to these harms with targeted, proportionate measures by:

Prohibiting state and local law enforcement agencies from entering into joint task forces or interagency agreements
that assist racial or identity profiling, criminalization of speech, or use of unauthorized weapons of war.
Ensuring that California does not give federal law enforcement officers acting beyond their federal jurisdiction broad
power to stop and arrest Californians.

The bill strikes a careful balance between protecting Californians from federal overreach and ensuring that our law enforcement can continue lawful collaborations with federal partners.

Let’s use our resources to serve Californians’ values and priorities, not to silence them.

I urge you to protect Californians by voting YES on SB 1105.

Regards,