Senator Thomas J. Umberg (D-Santa Ana) announced that his measure, Senate Bill 901, which combats extremism in California’s National or State Guards was officially singed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday evening.

In 2021, the Defense Department Inspector General reported 281 extremism investigations. In last year’s Annual Threat Assessment published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the U.S. intelligence community deemed racially or unethnically motivated violent extremism — with adherents such as white supremacists, Nazis, and other racist groups — the “most lethal threat” to Americans and are recruiting members of the military.

“Just this year, the media exposed a public school teacher and member of the Arizona National Guard as a neo-Nazi,” said Senator Umberg, a retired US Army colonel and member of the Senate Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs. “In life or death situations, members of the military must be able to trust each other implicitly without fear of discrimination or disparate treatment. And, in an emergency, all members of the public must be able to trust our National and State Guard.”

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