{"id":61095,"date":"2026-06-01T13:46:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=61095"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:46:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:46:42","slug":"california-assembly-passes-stop-nick-shirley-act-radical-democrats-move-to-criminalize-investigative-journalism-and-shield-massive-immigrant-services-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=61095","title":{"rendered":"California Assembly Passes \u201cStop Nick Shirley Act\u201d \u2013 Radical Democrats Move to Criminalize Investigative Journalism and Shield Massive Immigrant Services Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Soviet-style assault on the First Amendment, the radical California State Assembly has officially voted to criminalize investigative journalism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Introduced by Assemblywoman Mia Bonta\u2014who happens to be married to California\u2019s far-left Attorney General Rob Bonta\u2014AB 2624 deceptively claims to expand California\u2019s \u201cSafe at Home\u201d confidentiality program.<\/span> The Democrats claim they are just protecting \u201cimmigration support service providers\u201d from harassment.<\/span><\/p>\n

By a sweeping 57-19 vote, far-left Democrats advanced <\/span>Assembly Bill 2624 on Tuesday. <\/span>The bill will now advance to the state Senate. If it passes that chamber, it will head to California Governor Gavin Newsom\u2019s desk for his signature before it can become law.<\/span><\/p>\n

As The Gateway Pu ndit<\/a> previously reported when this abomination first crawled out of the Assembly Judiciary Committee in April, this is a disgusting Democrat power grab designed to silence brave citizen journalists like Nick Shirley who dare expose the rampant fraud bleeding American taxpayers dry in government-funded immigrant service centers.<\/p>\n

Independent journalist Nick Shirley became the target of this legislation because he actually does the work legacy media refuses to do. He exposed over $110 million in alleged Somali-run daycare fraud in Minnesota \u2014 empty \u201clearning centers\u201d billing taxpayers while no children were present.<\/p>\n

He followed that up with explosive reporting on California daycare and hospice fraud schemes, including ghost operations in Los Angeles tied to massive Medi-Cal and Medicare looting.<\/p>\n

Under this new law, if those same operations existed in California and simply claimed the exposure caused them \u201creasonable fear,\u201d Shirley\u2019s videos could be forced offline. The journalists and citizens who filmed them could be dragged into court and financially ruined.<\/p>\n

Under this authoritarian law, anyone who takes photos, records video, or posts information online revealing the faces or locations of workers at these mass-migration, non-profit entities faces catastrophic consequences:<\/span><\/p>\n