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🗓️ 30 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | A bill making its way through Sacramento is now drawing some sharp criticism. |
| 0:05.0 | At the California State Capitol, AB 495 is gaining national attention. |
| 0:11.0 | Hundreds of people rallied on the steps of the California Capitol against Assembly Bill 495. |
| 0:17.0 | I want to encourage you in a couple of days. Keep showing up. |
| 0:21.6 | Keep showing up. |
| 0:22.6 | The bill creates a new process for short-term guardianships in probate court. |
| 0:27.6 | Now, this allows parents to designate someone to care for their children temporarily while maintaining their parental rights. |
| 0:34.6 | They would be authorized to enroll children in school and consent to their medical care with an affidavit, |
| 0:39.3 | an event of a parent's detention or deportation. |
| 0:42.3 | Thousands of opponents of the bill rallied outside the Capitol on Tuesday. |
| 0:46.3 | Many citing concerns about potential misuse of the affidaviterns about child safety should the bill pass |
| 0:54.4 | and the language included in the bill. |
| 0:56.8 | There are no safeguards in that affidavit. |
| 0:59.5 | There is no signature. |
| 1:01.2 | There is no parent permission, |
| 1:02.6 | we're applying on the permission slip. |
| 1:04.6 | This is a child trafficker's dream. |
| 1:08.4 | This is actually a kidnappers, a trafficker's, pedophiles' dream come true. |
| 1:13.4 | Can you imagine Trace dropping off your grandchild at a school here in Los Angeles, |
| 1:18.0 | and you come back to picking them up at the end of the day? |
| 1:20.6 | They're not there anymore. |
| 1:22.0 | You ask who took the child? |
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