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 03/25/26 - Amended Senate
 01/06/26 - Introduced

 SB-873 Courthouses: privilege from civil arrest.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/16/2026 04:00 AM

SB873:v96#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Revised
 June 23, 2026

 Amended
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 Assembly
 June 15, 2026

 Amended
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 Senate
 May 21, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 March 25, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 873

Introduced by Senators Reyes and Umberg
(Coauthors: Senators Durazo and Gonzalez)
(CoauthorCoauthors: Assembly Member Members Zbur and Kalra)

January 06, 2026

An act to add Section 43.541 to, and to repeal and add Section 43.54 of, the Civil Code, relating to courts. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 873, as amended, Reyes.
 Courthouses: privilege from civil arrest.

Existing law prohibits a person from being subject to civil arrest in a courthouse while attending a court proceeding or having legal business in a courthouse, except pursuant to a valid judicial warrant. Existing law confers specified powers to judicial officers, including to preserve and enforce order in the officer’s immediate presence and in proceedings before the officer, to compel obedience to the officer’s lawful orders, and to prohibit activities that threaten access to courthouses and court proceedings, including protecting the privilege from civil arrest at courthouses and court proceedings.

This bill would prohibit a person from being subject to civil arrest while traveling to, while present at, or while traveling from a courthouse for any lawful activity, as defined. The bill would authorize a court to issue appropriate judicial orders
 to protect the privilege from civil arrest. The bill would authorize the Attorney General to bring a civil action to obtain appropriate equitable and declaratory relief if the Attorney General has reasonable cause to believe that a violation of these provisions has occurred or is imminent. The bill would also authorize a person who has been subject to civil arrest to bring a civil action for appropriate equitable and declaratory relief and civil damages, including actual damages and statutory damages of $10,000. The bill would authorize a party in a successful action to recover court costs and reasonable attorney’s fees. The bill would exempt a court, judicial officer, or court personnel acting lawfully pursuant to their duty to maintain safety and order in the courts from any action or proceeding pursuant to these provisions.

This bill would require the Judicial Council to promulgate rules necessary to ensure specified requirements, including, among other things, that any representative of a local, state, or federal law enforcement agency who, while acting in an official capacity, enters a courthouse intending to arrest an individual identify themselves to court security personnel, state their specific law enforcement purpose and the intended enforcement action to be taken, and provide court personnel with a copy of a valid judicial warrant concerning the intended enforcement action to be taken.

This bill would require, when court security personnel are aware that any representative of a local, state, or federal law enforcement agency, while acting in an official capacity, enters a courthouse, that court security personnel request the law enforcement representative or representatives identify themselves and state their specific law enforcement purposes and intended enforcement action to be taken, and request from the law enforcement representative or representatives a copy of a valid judicial warrant concerning the intended enforcement action to be taken. The bill would require, if court security personnel are aware there is an attorney representing a person named in the judicial warrant in any capacity, that court security personnel request the law enforcement representative to afford the attorney the right to review the warrant.

This bill would require the Judicial Council to annually
 prepare a report compiling statistics, aggregated by county, of information related to civil arrests, as specified. The bill would require the Judicial Council to publicly post the report on its public internet website.

 This bill would also make related findings and declarations and sp