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Election Day is November 3, and ballots are arriving in mailboxes across California. Your vote is your voice, and I want every Californian to have their vote counted. In the weeks ahead, I want to reassure you that it will be business as usual. Our elections will run exactly in the way you have grown accustomed to.
At a press conference this week, my message to Californians was simple: make a plan, vote early, and know that my office has your back every step of the way.
If you are not yet registered, you can register online until Monday, October 19 at registertovote.ca.gov. Once you have your ballot, there are many days and many ways to vote in our state — you can mail in your ballot, drop it off at a ballot drop box, or vote in person, either early or on Election Day. If you are mailing your ballot, send it at least a week before Election Day. However you choose to vote, your vote will be protected, your rights upheld, and election laws enforced. Come November, we are ready for whatever comes our way.
Your Attorney General,
Rob
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Mail-In Voting Remains Safe and Secure for November General Election
 We are less than four weeks from Election Day, and I know some Californians may be wondering whether everything coming out of Washington has changed how they can vote. The answer is no. My office successfully secured a U.S. Supreme Court order that protects your ability to vote by mail, so you can continue to vote as you have in past elections —whether by mail, ballot drop box, early or in person on Election Day. My fellow attorneys general and I have been in close contact and are ready to take action against any new attempt to undermine voters’ rights. With ballots beginning to arrive, I encourage everyone to vote early to ensure your voice is heard.
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Fighting for Vulnerable Communities
 California is fighting for vulnerable communities and finding real solutions that help everyday people, like preventing pollution, noise, traffic, and potholes from trucks cutting through quiet neighborhoods where parents and children live, sleep, and go to school. This week, I issued an enforcement advisory letter to eight jurisdictions in California’s warehouse concentration region —Chino, Moreno Valley, Perris, Rancho Cucamonga, Rialto, Riverside, Ontario, and Riverside County —that have not complied with their requirements under Assembly Bill (AB) 98 to amend their general plans to include truck routes that avoid residential areas and “sensitive receptors," such as schools, day cares, parks, playgrounds, nursing homes, and hospitals. By identifying specific routes for trucks that avoid residential areas and sensitive receptors, jurisdictions can reduce burdens on communities that result from the pollution, noise, road deterioration, accidents, and other road hazards created by truck traffic.
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Demanding Federal Watchdogs Investigate Trump's Taxpayer-Funded Political Ads
 Californians should not have to pay for President Trump’s political grandstanding. There’s a reason there are laws in place that bar the use of taxpayer funds for political purposes. This week, I submitted a complaint with the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel urging an investigation into President Trump’s misuse of taxpayer funds for partisan political purposes. Beginning on September 23, 2026, a series of political ads, featuring President Trump and with the disclosure “paid for by the U.S. government,” began airing on Fox News, CNN, and MS NOW. These ads, clearly designed to support the President’s political party ahead of the midterms, have reportedly cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars and violate multiple federal laws, including the Hatch Act. I'm calling on federal watchdogs to investigate and prosecute this staggering misuse of public funding and breach of public trust.
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Fighting for Funding to Improve Our Unemployment Insurance Systems
 Unemployment insurance is a cornerstone of the American safety net. It is what stands between working families and financial collapse when an individual loses their job. Congress deliberately made a bipartisan investment in modernizing the unemployment systems that Americans depend on. Yet, the Trump Administration decided to yank away these approved funds that would help states improve fraud prevention, replace antiquated technology, enhance cybersecurity, and ensure that workers can access the benefits they need. This week, my office, alongside a coalition of 12 attorneys general, filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Labor’s unlawful decision in May 2025 to terminate more than $45 million in grant funding that was intended to assist the plaintiff states in modernizing unemployment insurance system technology and implementing measures to prevent fraud.
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Making Your Life Affordable
 From groceries to gas, costs seem to be rising and rising ... and rising. California DOJ has your back and is committed to protecting California families grappling with the high cost of living. In this segment, find some of the ways California DOJ is protecting Californians — and their wallets.
Did You Know: We Take Complaints!
What We Are Doing: Do you have a complaint about a business that is not complying with consumer protection or other laws? My office wants to know. California DOJ has a reporting page available here and has published a handy complaint referral table you can check in case another government agency regulates that business. If so, you can report your complaint directly to that regulating agency.
What This Means To You: From hidden fees to gender-based pricing discrimination and even dealings with for-profit colleges, filing a complaint with my office is a way to report illegal or unethical business practices that are costing you money. California's robust consumer protection laws protect all Californians from unlawful, unfair, and fraudulent business and marketing practices. While California DOJ does not represent individuals or give legal advice, your complaint may help us investigate or take other legal action to protect California consumers and the public interest.
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Keeping You Safe
 During Domestic Violence Awareness Month, I am proud to announce AB 1753, The Survivor Pathways to Safety Act, was signed into law. For too long, survivors of abuse and violence have had to overcome dangerous barriers to obtain protective orders and ensure those orders are effectively served and enforced to keep them safe. We are taking crucial steps forward to end that with AB 1753, which is a comprehensive package of reforms designed to modernize the state’s court protective order system. I am proud to have partnered with survivor advocates and GIFFORDS to develop this bill that implements 10 of the legislative recommendations from my office’s ‘Strategic Plan to Sustain California’s Record Progress Against Gun Violence’ report. AB 1753 will ensure our court protective order systems rightfully set a national standard for safety, access to justice, and proactive, coordinated enforcement, especially to prevent gun violence, domestic violence, and hate-motivated violence.
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CARE Corner
 CARE Community Outreach Manager Albert Lord attended the NAACP Community Civic Engagement Summit in Orange County. This convening focused on strengthening and coordinating collective Get Out the Vote efforts that protect access to the ballot and ensures every eligible voter is empowered to make their voice heard with the tools and resources necessary to fully participate in the democratic process.
Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation's first and largest grassroots–based civil rights organization with a mission to achieve equity and social inclusion by advancing policies and practices that expand human and civil rights, eliminate discrimination, and accelerate the well-being, education, and economic security of Black people and all persons of color.
Also this week, the CARE community virtual briefings continue for the Senate Bill (SB) 54 Updated Guidance and Model Policies for California’s Public Institutions. Register for the next CARE Community Briefing here: oag.ca.gov/care.
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Post of the Week
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FLASH BRIEFING
Attorney General Bonta Co-Leads Coalition in Opposing Trump Administration’s Cruel Gutting of Head Start Standards
Attorney General Bonta Defends Cornerstone of U.S. Forest Conservation
Attorney General Bonta Rebukes Trump Administration’s Revised Attempt to Loosen National Clean Water Protections
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Video of the Week
Make a plan, vote early, and know that my office has your back every step of the way.
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Make a Difference at California DOJ
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