California lawmakers have passed a bill that prohibits federal law enforcement from wearing facial coverings, a practice seen used among immigration enforcement agents that critics say harms transparency and accountability.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has until Oct. 13 to sign or veto SB 627, which passed the California Legislature, according to a news release from California Sen. Scott Wiener, whose district includes San Francisco. Wiener is among the state lawmakers who introduced the bill known as the No Secret Police Act, describing the bill as a ban on “extreme masking.”

The Trump administration’s “border czar,” Tom Homan, in an interview with The Daily in June, said that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers wear masks because they and their families have been doxed. U.S. Secreta

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