Dubbed the California Religious Freedom Act, the bill coasted through the legislative process this year, the only proposal to gain bipartisan support from a package introduced by majority Democrats to counter Trump’s policies.
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By KTLA News | October 15, 2017
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a closely watched bill on Sunday to block the creation of any so-called Muslim registry should President Trump choose to act on a proposal he repeatedly suggested during his 2016 campaign.
Senate Bill 31 by state Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) bars state and local governments from releasing personal information to the federal government for the creation of any religious list, registry or database. It also prohibits them from using resources to create their own lists.
Dubbed the California Religious Freedom Act, the bill coasted through the legislative process this year, the only proposal to gain bipartisan support from a package introduced by majority Democrats to counter Trump’s policies.
In authoring the bill, Lara cited an NBC News interview in which Trump, then a presidential candidate, said there “should be a lot of systems,” beyond a database, that track Muslims in the country. As evidence the president could follow through on that idea, supporters of SB 31 pointed to the creation of travel bans from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
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