Published on June 30, 2025
No Secret Police! National Campaign For Justice
Last week, we told Congress to investigate ICE's anti-American tactics, including masked arrests, hiding identification, and ignoring basic rights like warrants and Miranda warnings. Now, California is stepping up.
In response to ICE officers descending on neighborhoods in tactical gear, hiding behind balaclavas, and abducting people off the street without so much as a badge or warrant, California lawmakers are pushing back hard.
Senate Bill 627, the No Secret Police Act, bans the use of masks by law enforcement, including federal ICE agents operating in California, and requires clear identification on uniforms during arrests.
These are the very same abuses we just saw condemned in Huntington Park, where masked agents working out of unmarked vans raided homes and abducted U.S. citizens. Families were torn apart. Pregnant mothers were dragged from their homes. Community trust obliterated. And all under the guise of law enforcement.
If Congress won't act fast enough to stop this creeping authoritarianism, states nationwide must.
Tell your state legislature to introduce and pass a version of California's No Secret Police Act today.
What California is doing should be the national standard. Law enforcement in America should never operate in the shadows. Agents hiding their faces while dragging people away in silence is something out of a dictatorship, not a democracy.
And yet this is happening in broad daylight, in cities across the country. It's why Huntington Park's mayor took the extraordinary step of ordering local police to stop ICE from operating in secret, to demand identification, and to enforce basic rules like license plates and agency credentials on vehicles.
But local officials can't do it alone. We need state laws, backed by enforcement power and funding, to stop these anti-American practices before they spread even further.
Demand that your state take immediate action to help make the No Secret Police Act law nationwide.
Thank you for standing up for civil rights and the rule of law.
- LeeAnn
LeeAnn Hall
Director, National Campaign for Justice