When they name a law after you, and you are still alive. 8/22/26 New York Post:
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed California’s controversial “Stop Nick Shirley Act” into law on Saturday, just days after a radical left-wing operative crashed the journalist’s Capitol interview and launched a crude personal attack on him.
Assembly Bill 2624 expands California’s Safe at Home program to employees of nonprofits that serve people navigating the immigration system.
Critics have blasted the measure as a way to intimidate people “trying to shine light on bad behavior,” such as Shirley’s investigative reports on fraud in California and Minnesota.
The program already covers domestic violence survivors, elder abuse victims and reproductive and gender-affirming health care workers by providing substitute mailing addresses for people considered particularly vulnerable to targeted attacks and violent threats.
Democratic Assemblywoman Mia Bonta (D-Alameda), introduced the bill in February after reports of increased threats and harassment against immigration service providers.
“Our immigrant service providers are living in fear because of extremists looking to demonize the work that they do and the populations they serve,” Bonta said Saturday. “That is an intolerable consequence of the anti-immigrant rhetoric that exists right now.”
They could have punished threats and harassment, but that would have allowed muckrakers to continue exposing fraud.
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