{"id":80468,"date":"2025-12-03T22:43:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/80468\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T22:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:43:14","slug":"california-launches-online-portal-to-report-federal-agent-misconduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/80468\/","title":{"rendered":"California launches online portal to report ‘federal agent misconduct’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and Gov. Gavin Newsom launched a new online portal<\/a> Wednesday allowing residents to report what they believe to be excessive force, misconduct or other potentially illegal activity by federal agents or members of the military working in the state.<\/p>\n

Videos, photos and other information submitted through the portal will be treated confidentially and will help members of Bonta\u2019s team \u201ccreate a record of potential unlawful conduct by federal agents\u201d that could be used in future legal actions, Bonta\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n

The announcement comes as state leaders have clashed fiercely with Trump administration officials over the deployment of federal immigration agents in California. For months, local residents have filmed and documented those agents during immigration raids and enforcement actions. Claims of abuses have mounted and local leaders have started putting forward their own measures to restrict federal agents operating in their jurisdictions \u2014 including a Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors vote on Tuesday to ban federal agents from wearing masks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cCalifornia will always stand against abuses of power wherever they come from, and we will make sure that no one \u2014 not even a federal agent \u2014 operates outside the Constitution in our state,\u201d Bonta said during a news conference about the portal Wednesday morning. \u201cThis is an important step in that process.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not going to stand by while anyone \u2014 including federal agents \u2014 abuses their authority in California,\u201d Newsom said in a statement. \u201cThis new portal gives Californians an easy and safe way to speak up, share what they see, and help us hold people accountable. No one is above the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abigail Jackson, a White House spokesperson, denounced the move in a statement to The Times, saying Newsom and California \u201cshould be more concerned with the dangerous criminal illegal aliens they\u2019ve allowed to invade American communities, rather than attacking law enforcement officers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jackson said Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers \u201care facing a 1000% increase in assaults against them because of dangerous, untrue smears from elected Democrats,\u201d yet \u201cact heroically to enforce the law and protect American communities with the utmost professionalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone pointing the finger at law enforcement officers instead of the criminals are simply doing the bidding of criminal illegal aliens,\u201d Jackson said.<\/p>\n

Jackson\u2019s comments echoed previous remarks by Department of Homeland Security officials, who have denied claims that federal agents are acting unlawfully in California, strongly denounced previous suggestions from California officials that they might take legal actions against federal agents who step out of line in the state and accused bystanders documenting the actions of immigration agents of putting officers in danger.<\/p>\n

When The Times published an analysis this week<\/a> that cast doubt on the department claim, repeated by Jackson, that there has been a 1,000% increase in assaults against ICE agents, the department accused The Times of having \u201ctaken the side of murderous thugs who assault law enforcement, downplaying and promoting violence against them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The department recently had its budget massively expanded by Congress and is on a hiring spree for new ICE agents.<\/p>\n

On Monday, DHS issued a statement saying its agents had worked through the Thanksgiving holiday to arrest \u201cmore worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from across the country including rapists, pedophiles, and murderers.\u201d It also downplayed reports that many of the people its agents have arrested in recent months had no criminal record, saying that \u201c70% of ICE arrests are of criminal illegal aliens convicted or charged with a crime in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Justice in November sued California to block new laws that prohibit federal officials, including immigration agents, from wearing masks and that requires them to identify themselves.<\/p>\n

Bonta said the portal will help combat a \u201ccampaign of terror and fear\u201d being conducted in California by the Trump administration and its federal immigration agents, who are carrying out what Trump has called the largest deportation campaign in U.S. history.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom unmarked military-style vehicles to detainments that more closely resemble kidnappings, Californians are rightly concerned that federal agents may be crossing the line and abusing their authority,\u201d Bonta said.<\/p>\n

In addition to reports of any suspected unlawful actions by federal officers, including \u201cunlawful detentions, unreasonable searches [or] use of excessive force,\u201d Bonta said his office is also interested in reports of \u201cmilitary deployed to California being engaged unlawfully in civilian law enforcement,\u201d or of \u201cthe use of military or armed personnel at or near polling stations that interfere with the right to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bonta said that while federal agents are allowed to enforce federal laws in California, they \u201cmust also do so lawfully and in compliance with the Constitution,\u201d Bonta said, and anyone who doesn\u2019t believe they are doing so should report their actions at oag.ca.gov\/reportmisconduct.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Bonta stressed that people should not try to interfere with federal agents in their communities, and said the portal was a \u201csafe, accessible way\u201d for them to take action to report potentially unlawful federal actions.<\/p>\n

Bonta\u2019s office already had a process for accepting complaints about misconduct by local and state law enforcement, but generally only reviewed them if the person filing the complaint had already notified the local agency, and it had failed to take action within a reasonable period of time.<\/p>\n

Bonta\u2019s office has filed dozens of lawsuits against the Trump administration since January, including to challenge the deployments or actions of federal law enforcement, immigration agents and military personnel in the state, as well as the administration\u2019s attempts to tie various types of federal funding to state compliance with its immigration agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and Gov. Gavin Newsom launched a new online portal Wednesday allowing residents to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[9610,7,8863,729,6246,46092,46091,8684,48,52,51,47,50,49,1703,346,592,3729,225,1791,46093],"class_list":["post-80468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bonta","tag-california","tag-claim","tag-complaint","tag-department","tag-enforcement-action","tag-federal-agent-misconduct","tag-federal-immigration-agent","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-military","tag-office","tag-people","tag-report","tag-state","tag-times","tag-trump-administration-official"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}