A pair of lawmakers in California are searching for to ban regulation enforcement officers within the state from sporting face coverings, amid protests in Los Angeles in opposition to the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
State Sens. Scott Wiener and Jesse Arreguin — Democratic lawmakers from San Francisco and Oakland, respectively — introduced Monday that they’d be submitting SB 627 to ban native, state and federal regulation enforcement from protecting their faces when interacting with the general public.
The laws, dubbed the No Secret Police Act, would additionally require regulation enforcement officers to put on figuring out info, Wiener wrote in a post on X.
“Secret police conduct tanks belief & should finish,” Wiener wrote.
Throughout a press convention exterior San Francisco Metropolis Corridor on Monday, Wiener mentioned that “secret police” have been “grabbing” folks off the road, Fox San Francisco affiliate KTVU reported.
Exemptions to the invoice would come with SWAT groups and officers who put on medical masks throughout pure disasters, corresponding to wildfires, the lawmakers mentioned. Clear riot gear would even be permitted, since they’re see-through.
The invoice intends to make sure transparency and accountability for regulation enforcement in addition to defend them and the general public from potential impersonators, Arreguin mentioned.
The proposed laws comes amid a number of days of protests in Los Angeles over the Trump administration’s immigration insurance policies. The protests prompted President Donald Trump deploy National Guard troops with out the consent of California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Police escort a protester as tear gasoline surrounds folks throughout a protest, June 14, 2025, in Los Angeles.
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The Los Angeles Police Division made zero arrests on Sunday evening, the primary day with no arrests since the protests broke out on June 6.
Wiener referenced the immigration raids beneath the Trump administration when introducing the invoice, The San Francisco Standard reported.
“The latest federal operations in California have created an surroundings of profound terror,” Wiener mentioned, based on the native publication. “If we wish the general public to belief regulation enforcement, we can not permit them to behave like secret police in an authoritarian state.”
