CALmatters

Dan Walters has been writing about California politics for more than 50 years.

These days, he's over at CalMatters.

And at the start of this month, he wrote a column built on this one line.

All statewide offices, including the governorship, will remain in Democrat hands.

I've been hearing from people all week.

ICE has refused to comment on the reports of a so-called surge, telling nonprofit news organization CalMatters this.

For operational security and the safety of our officers, ICE will not disclose or discuss law enforcement operations.

While numerous outlets all throughout this state are reporting emptied streets with residents staying home and fearing ICE patrols, community advocates are reporting stops on rural roads and near agriculture work sites.

That's what we do in Los Angeles, and a lot of major cities in California.

What she's referring to there is this June 2025 report from the non-profit news outlet CalMatters that reported on a public record search of data, but this was in Northern California.

Since then, the LAPD's Office of Inspector General, which is an independent investigative arm of the police commissioners, did its own investigation of this.

It had direct access to all of the LAPD's search logs, and it wrote in July of this year it could find no instances of LAPD officers using the terms immigration or ICE to justify searches prior to July 2025.

Reform California.

One that I actually like, and I'm, I, I have on one tab that I'm looking at right now that is neutral because it provides the different groups that are involved, is actually CalMatters.

You know, it's a statewide-

Yeah

You know, sometimes a little stilted one direction or another, but it's pretty good because it gives you, it shows you who the opponents are, what their general claims are in kind of a summary basis, but then it provides you links to, to go and pull actual reasons for opposition based on that group.

So I'd say, you know, if you're more conservative, you can always kinda lean on Reform California, pretty decent.

And if you're looking for just kind of both sides, I'd say go to CalMatters.

Really good place to get some, some insight.