“No more secrecy,” said Senator Lena Gonzalez, chair of the California Latino Legislative Caucus, who noted the administration has detained some 650 children, 100 of them age five and younger.

Gonzalez is the author of SB 423, which would require the release of all 911 and emergency call records coming out of private detention centers in the state. The bill, co-sponsored by the First Amendment Coalition, comes following reporting by Cal Matters around reports of sexual assaults at the Otay Mesa detention facility in San Diego.  

Calling conditions inside these facilities “inhumane,” Gonzalez stressed lawmakers are “working to strengthen state oversight and provide California with additional tools to hold immigration detention facility operators accountable.”

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