“Stop Nick Shirley” Act Passes & Trump Drops Economic D-Day | 8.25.26

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California's Gavin Newsom comes under fire after signing a law dubbed the Stop Nick Shirley Act.

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They're going to protect immigration support service providers over legal taxpayers here inside the United States.

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We break down what the law actually says and why it's so controversial.

**Georgia Howe** (0:49)
I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Tuesday, August 25th, and this is Morning Wire.
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**John Bickley** (3:18)
California Governor Gavin Newsom has just signed a controversial new law he says is intended to protect immigration workers from harassment. But critics say it will shield taxpayer funded organizations from scrutiny and discourage journalists from investigating fraud.

**Georgia Howe** (3:33)
Daily Wire culture reporter Megan Basham is here now with the details. So Megan, this measure has come to be known as the Stop Nick Shirley Act after the independent journalist who of course went viral recently for exposing the infamous Somali Leering Center among some other similar scams.
So what exactly is the impact of this new California law going to be?

**Megan Basham** (3:55)
Yeah, Georgia. Well, the actual legislation is Assembly Bill 2624, and it expands California's existing safe at home address confidentiality program. And what that does is it includes staffers who are affiliated with NGOs primarily with immigration related services. So think NGOs that do things like provide immigrant resettling services, or legal services if they're trying to gain legal status, healthcare services, things like that. And supporters say that those workers are being threatened and subjected to online harassment as a result of some of the exposure that independent journalists like Nick Shirley have done.
So they say that this program will allow these organizations and these workers to substitute confidential mailing addresses for their actual addresses in government records. But what that does is it does make it harder to track who is spending government money and how they're spending it. So the legislation also creates civil liability around publishing certain identifying information like images of people or buildings. So materials that can become very relevant when documenting who operates a publicly funded organization and how they're operating it. So California Assemblyman, Carl DeMeo has condemned this legislation. Here's how he described the bill.