AB 495 Capitol rally, Aug 19, 2025. (Photo: Katy Grimes for California Globe)
‘A Child Trafficker’s and Kidnapper’s Dream Bill’ Moved Out of Committee by Senate Democrats
AB 495 dangerously redefines guardianship, stripping away parental rights
By Katy Grimes, September 2, 2025 9:59 am
Assembly Bill 495, the bill which threatens parental rights by allowing the state to remove custody from parents who do not “affirm their child’s gender identity,” was moved off of the suspense file by Senate Democrats, after being placed on the suspense file August 18th.
A bill may be taken off the Suspense File and heard with two days’ notice published in the Daily File by a vote of a majority of the members of the committee present and voting.
Ludicrously titled the “Family Preparedness Plan Act of 2025,” the bill even goes so far as to claim that parents who are abusive or neglectful for not indulging their minor child’s gender dysphoria, are subjected to their children being removed.
The bill’s actual language says this:
“The bill would expand the type of person who is authorized to execute a caregiver’s authorization affidavit to include a “nonrelative extended family member,” and grant them the same rights to authorize school-related medical care, for the minor that are given to guardians. By expanding who is authorized to sign a caregiver’s authorization affidavit for these purposes under penalty of perjury, this bill would expand the crime of perjury, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program.
This bill would amend the statutory form for a caregiver’s authorization affidavit.”
Democrats claim the bill “is a critical tool that will preserve California’s families.” The bill’s author Assemblywoman Celeste Rodriguez (San Fernando-D) says, “We must do everything we can to safeguard families from separation and ensure children are supported.”
AB 495 even redefines what qualifies as a “safe” home, replacing parents with government for the parental position of deciding what is best for a child. Just imagine the definition of an “unsafe” home: one in which the children are homeschooled, or one which has legally purchased and registered guns, or there is a freezer full of Venison hunted by dad, or a Trump flag flying next to the American flag, or a home which mixes the recycling and landfill garbage.
AB 495 “Requires schools and licensed child day care facilities to adopt model policies developed by the Attorney General regarding interaction with immigration enforcement authorities, and requires the Attorney General to develop those model policies.”
This bill is being shoved through despite thousands, maybe millions, of parents’ opposition to it.
Notably, as Greg Burt with the California Family Council reported, “The Committee Chair, Senator Anna Caballero, announced making clarifying amendments to AB 495, which were supposed to be available a hour after the hearing, but were not. The committee staff and the author ignored requests for the amendments and said we would have to wait until they were published online sometime over the weekend.”
What are Democrats hiding?
AB 495 even redefines what qualifies as a “safe” home, replacing parents with government for the parental position of deciding what is best for a child.
As the Globe reported August 20th from the Capitol rally opposing AB 495, “Attorney Brad Dacus with the Pacific Justice Institute said he’s never witnessed such an attack on parents as AB 495, and added that PJI has 280 cases in active litigation. ‘This legislation strips away all legal rights from parents. A stranger can take a child and flee the country.’”
So who is sponsoring this atrocious law?
The bill’s sponsors, The Alliance for Children’s Rights’ Guardianship Program, and Public Counsel Pro Bono Law, are behind the bill effectively replacing parental involvement, shoving parents aside, with any guardian who signs the affidavit to remove your child from school or day care. Both non-profits are based in Los Angeles.
As Greg Burt reported, “Kristen Power, a representative of the Alliance for Children’s Rights, told the Assembly Human Services Committee back in April that some schools and hospitals don’t accept the current affidavit without a parent’s signature. Instead of viewing this skepticism as a safeguard, her organization proposed the introduction of AB 495 to ensure that schools and medical providers accept the form, without talking to the parent.”
The Alliance claims, “Our mission is to protect the rights of children in poverty and those overcoming abuse and neglect by delivering free legal services, supportive programs, and systemic solutions.”
The 2024 IRS Form 990 (for 2023) for The Alliance for Children’s Rights’ shows $23,100,612 in Net assets.
On their IRS Form 990 they say:
THE ALLIANCE HAS IMPROVED THE LIVES OF MORE THAN 172,000 YOUNG CLIENTS WITH STABILITY THROUGH ADOPTION AND LEGAL GUARDIANSHIP, AND WITH ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION, AND OTHER CRITICAL SUPPORTS, SERVING OVER 5,800 CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS THIS FISCAL YEAR.
CEO Jennifer Braun makes $306,283 in total salary and compensation. The Chief Development Officer makes $237,749 in total compensation. The Chief Financial Officer makes $225,879. There are five more individuals making more than $100,000 annually for this non-profit.
The end of the year total assets were $27,182,139.
The reason for it’s public charity status: “An organization that normally receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or from the general public described in section 170(b)(1)(A)(vi). (Complete Part II.)”
Since 2018, the amount of Public Support the The Alliance for Children’s Rights’ has received is $35,569,873.
Public support percentage for 2023 is 77%. For 2022 is was 78.350%.
They have $4,000,000 in endowment funds, $1.4 million in Land, Buildings, and Equipment.
Their gross income for Fundraising Events was $293,321.
Public Counsel is a nonprofit public interest law firm dedicated to advancing civil rights and racial and economic justice.
Their net assets for 2023 were $29,082,688 according to their IRS Form 990 filing.
CEO and President Monica Ramirez Almadani is paid $260,229 in total salary and compensation. There are 11 more employees paid well over $100,000 annually. And they have five independent contractors and consultants paid $100,000 up to $315,400.
Public Counsel also spends significantly on lobbying:
You get the drift. A lot of public money (government grants) goes into supporting these two Los Angeles non-profits.
Here are the bill’s Author Amendments:
- Strike legislative finding and declaration that provides that “The state recognizes unique challenges faced by immigrant families due to the federal administration’s enhanced deportation actions, which risk widespread family separations and disrupt caregiving stability for children under 18 years of age.
- Add a legislative finding a declaration that “Immigration enforcement activities that separate parents and caregivers from their families or their workplace are highly disruptive for children and youth in their care.
- Require local education agencies to provide information to parents and guardians about the caregiver’s authorization affidavit, as specified.
- Require local education agencies to adopt DOJ’s model polices, as specified, that include, information related to the caregiver’s authorization affidavit, as specified.
- Clarify that the caregiver’s authorization affidavit is not required to be notarized.
- Provide that a licensee or administrator of a licensed child day care facility shall request parents or authorized representatives to review and update their emergency contact information, as needed.
- Strike provisions encouraging facilities to work with parents to update their emergency contact information.
- Require day care facilities to provide a parent or authorized representative with information about how to access model policies.
- Require the department to inform day care facilities of revisions or updates to the model policies, when notified by the Attorney General.
- Move specified provisions related to “Family Preparedness in Licensed Child Daycare Facilities” from Section 1596.7997 of the Health and Safety Code to newly added Section 1597.640 of Division 2 of Chapter 3.62 of the Health and Safety Code.
Here is the bill analysis with amendments:
202520260AB495_Senate Appropriations
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Gee, what a surprise that the legislature is engaging in “suspense file” shenanigans to sneak this horrible horrible bill through on the heels of a “relaxing” three day weekend. As I understand it, 2nd reading of this bill is scheduled for today.
We must find and contact our senate reps ASAP and also spread the word to as many others as possible that this will be passed “in the dead of night,” so to speak, unless they hear from us in great numbers. No one wants this! They pass this stuff on the sly if they can manage it because they KNOW no one wants it.
https://www.senate.ca.gov/senators
It’s AB 495, by the way. Senators must VOTE NO on AB 495.
If this is passed by the Legislature and Newsom does NOT veto this, please keep this article handy (this and others) that show what he actually represents vs what he claims to represent!
Yep, and they made the bill more dangerous by eliminating the notary requirement.
As long as there is a Democrat Supermajority in California they will continue to erode our rights! Honestly, all they do is villainize Conservatives but their actions prove they are the TYRANTS!
If Newsom has any humanity left, he will veto this atrocious bill!
Light up the phones and email to the Governor!
Democrat Assemblywoman Celeste Rodriguez’s bill AB 495 is just another devious attempt by Democrats to strip away parental rights? It’s interesting that two of the bill’s major sponsors are questionable “nonprofits” that are using taxpayer funded grants to lobby legislative Democrats to pass the bill? No doubt these “nonprofits” will profit handsomely if the bill passes and is signed into law by Hair-gel Hitler Newsom? These nonprofits seem to be very profitable for their senior management and also for the legislative Democrats like Assemblywoman Celeste Rodriguez who do their bidding?
Simply put this is the California State Government declaring war on your children and making it so that any pedo off the streets can steal your children. These people must want to burn in hell.
Totally hypocritical. Why are you folks not dunning the Republicans to release the Epstein docks? All over the Israeli and Asian press is talk of very compromising photos and records regarding Donald Trump and other Republicans and Democrats.
Clearly the Epstein documents are not exculpatory in nature.
If the Epstein disclosures are not forthcoming the time has come is come for Donald Trump to either sue ABC news for libel or resign!
Oh look, Eyeinthesky must be one the crazy bitchy attack queens from Hair-gel Hitler Newsom’s rapid response media team who is triggered and has resorted to making up fake news while failing miserably at trying to deflect for Newsom and the rest of the criminal Democrat thug mafia who control this state.
Meanwhile Hair-gel Hitler Newsom’s sleazy Weinstein trollop “First Partner” wife Jennifer cried some fake crocodile tears about the deportation of criminal illegal aliens. The Newsom’s and the rest of the criminal Democrat thug mafia no doubt profit greatly from their human trafficking scheme and the exploitation of innocent migrant children who have been lured into California under the guise of California being an open border sanctuary state. Democrat satanists need a steady supply of innocent children who are easily disappeared for use in their satanic rituals and the production of Adrenochrome that they indulge in.
https://x.com/_johnnymaga/status/1958130431095644358
Have to agree, TJ. There seems to be no insight or awareness that (Dems’) repetitive self-righteous demands for Epstein investigative updates simply aren’t plausible. They make the person demanding them look clueless.
This observation probably falls on deaf ears, though. Anyone scanning the headlines the last couple of days can see that a lot of Dems are losing their minds more than ever, and that’s saying something. Putting out rumors that are unbelievable on their face. Which other unskeptical Dems immediately fall for!
Medication review are two words that came to mind. may be in order.
Yet these morons in California keep voting for democrats, when are people going to wake up and understand government is not good with our money or our children especially the democrats, wake up America.
When you live in California, which I understand from the way you phrased your comment you may not, you become fully aware that election cheating is rampant, off the charts. And the REASON you become fully aware of it is because it’s completely and totally OBVIOUS to every sane person who is not in complete denial.
Larry Elder on his podcast and YouTube channel spoke with Shiloh Marx, Founder and Director of The California Election Integrity Initiative, about how Democrats use “inactive voters” to rig elections in favor of Democrats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgtORUuwTwQ
Thanks for posting, TJ. The ways of the election cheat are many (and complicated).
As I recall, Jay Valentine described, for example, one plausible scenario where zip codes for ineligible voters’ addresses on voter rolls were changed temporarily by those in the registrar’s office with access. These undeliverable ballots were then returned to post offices where, say, paid-off or otherwise compromised postal workers collected the returned ballots for the bad actors to fill out for the Dems when the time came to overcome the Repub numbers. The zip codes were changed back in the meantime so the rolls would be as they were before the shenanigans. (Thus monitoring voter rolls in “real time” is needed to address this.) I don’t remember all the details but in a nutshell, stacks and stacks of ineligible voter ballots, untraceable when separated from their envelopes, were in the end collected for the bad actors in “boiler rooms” to fill out to the Dems’ liking.
Readers might want to support FixCalifornia.com if possible. As I understand it they are addressing these and other voting issues.
Another bill taken off the suspense file and now moving in for the kill is SB 79, Scott Wiener’s destroy-the-suburbs bill that fully takes away local zoning control and could mean six-story multi-unit housing plopped into the middle of your single family home neighborhoods and maybe even right next door to the house YOU sweated and slaved to own if you are unlucky enough to live near a bus stop, for God’s sake. Turns out EVERYONE lives near a bus stop. Or other transit. What’s more there will be no requirements for parking, expanded sewer and other infrastructure, fire or other services, or you-name-it. What the hell does Scott Wiener know or care about my neighborhood? DUH, he DOESN’T. He can jolly well stay FAR AWAY from my neighborhood. He is all about his bank account, his next election, and he is bent on destroying the state. Who even knows why. For fun?
It’s in the Assembly now, heading sneakily but relentlessly toward the finish line. PLEASE we must contact our assembly reps and share on social media to do what we can to stop this insanity. Be sure to contact your rep if you can grab a minute to weigh in:
https://www.assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers
Urge a NO VOTE on SB 79.
Uggh!
Thanks for letting us know @Show.
It should be renamed, URBAN WARFARE!
The suburbs will be killed off, Obama’s dream come true.
Yes that WAS Obama’s dream come true, wasn’t it? sigh
With any luck all of the opposition to this will prevail. There should be a lot of it. (knock wood)
Even City of L.A. (council) voted to oppose it. go figure
Please VOTE NO on AB 495