California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who is considered a potential candidate in the 2026 governor’s race, held a press conference in San Francisco last week announcing his plan to safeguard the rights of California’s immigrant communities over the next four years.

Bonta stood in front of a wall of new books on Wednesday at the Bernal Heights Public Library located in the diverse neighborhood south of San Francisco’s Mission District. He held up a printed set of updated guidelines for public institutions to use in response to immigration enforcement agents.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.