July 15, 2021

In early July, Attorney General Bonta submitted proposed amendments to the regulations implementing California’s Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015, Assembly Bill (AB) 953. The official public comment period began on Friday, July 9, 2021, and will conclude on September 3, 2021. The proposed amendments and supporting rulemaking documents are available online at https://oag.ca.gov/ab953/regulations.

All members of the public are invited to submit a comment on the proposed regulations, and may do so in one of the ways outlined below:

1. Send written comments via email to DOJ at Tanya.Koshy@doj.ca.gov.

2. Send written comments via mail to the address specified in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Action posted at https://oag.ca.gov/ab953/regulations.

3. Send written comments via fax to the number specified in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Action posted at https://oag.ca.gov/ab953/regulations.

4. Submit oral comments at one of the two public hearings the Department is holding on the proposed amendments to the regulations.

Additional information on the proposed amendments along with hearing dates and times can be found at: https://oag.ca.gov/ab953/regulations.