Leftist Scare Tactics Don’t Work in El Cajon
Attorney General Rob Bonta is targeting El Cajon once again, and we are pushing back.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta held a press conference yesterday announcing his latest lawsuit — suing the City of El Cajon and the El Cajon Police Department for not complying with his interpretation of the law on license plate data.
At the press conference, Bonta boasted that he is the “highest ranking law enforcement official” in the state. He failed to distinguish, however, that there is a difference law enforcement and lawmaking. Bonta is not a judge; he is not a legislator. Bonta gets to enforce the rules; but he does not get to make them or change them.
Bonta’s lawsuit alleges that the City of El Cajon has not followed Bonta’s guidance on the sharing of license plate data. But guidance is simply guidance, it is not the law itself. Bonta’s guidance adds provisions to the law that simply do not exist.
The lawsuit and corresponding press conference is a leftist scare tactic. Bonta and his friends on the Left want to scare the public into believing that license plate data will be used to track illegal immigrants, women seeking abortions, and transgender kids who have fled their “deep red” states for the safety of California. That’s simply not true.
I lost count of how many times Bonta used the word “comply” during his press conference. Per usual, he wants Californians to comply with his opinions and his interpretation of the law, rather than seeking truth on our own.
The truth is that license plate data saves lives. In the City of El Cajon, we have used this data to track violent criminals that come into our community and disarm them before they have the opportunity to harm others. This is life-saving technology and Bonta is using this opportunity to bully one of the last remaining common-sense municipalities in California that refuses to comply with his fake laws.
Bonta ended his press conference talking about President Trump. Don’t let him tell him tell you that this lawsuit isn’t politically motivated. His beef with the City of El Cajon is, and always has been, the fact that we don’t run scared.
I’ve proudly served as the Mayor of El Cajon since 2013. We kept our businesses and churches open during the pandemic. We hired law enforcement officers when other cities wouldn’t. We are not a sanctuary city. We put the people of El Cajon first, and we always will.
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Wells is the Mayor of El Cajon