Gov. Gavin Newsom's Office / Bay City News

Assembly Bill 49 AND Senate Bill 98 will change the rules for ICE enforcement at California schools. But it’s not yet clear how effective they’ll be.

SB 98 says schools need to notify their communities if ICE agents show up on campus.

"Information about them I believe spreads quickly through the community anyway," said Thomas Dee, a professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education. He researches how ICE raids affect schools.

"There's certainly no harm in schools supporting the dissemination of that information," Dee said. "But I suspect it'll have much less impact than a policy that seeks to limit ICE activity in and around schools."

That’s where AB 49 comes in. It says immigration officers need a judicial warrant, judicial subpoen

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