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“Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.” (1 Peter 2:16 ESV)
Every parent needs to pay attention to California’s latest attack on parental rights and to the very foundation of family freedom.
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The left-leaning California state legislature is looking to legally and secretly take your child away from you in Assembly Bill 495.
The California Family Council states that AB495 “creates legal loopholes that make kidnapping children easy.”
Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills has told parents to leave California if this bill passes. “You’ve got to get out. You’ve got to run with your kids. Your child’s safety is number one in your life.”
If this heinous bill passes, the state of California could decide what circumstances of family life threaten a child’s safety and welfare. For instance, are you not gender-affirming? Do you homeschool? Do you hold the “wrong” political views? Do you attend a church that preaches that my life choices are sinful? What are you doing that we, the state, don’t like?
What’s more, blue states will most certainly try to pass a similar law if AB495 passes. To know how quickly this evil could spread, you only need to look at the extreme laws passed in blue states like dominoes on abortion, sanctuary for illegal criminals, transgendering minors, and other leftist policies codified into law.
Intercessor, we must pray that AB495 is defeated before it becomes a new national norm. Because AB495 – with the Orwellian and deceitful name, the “Family Preparedness Plan Act of 2025,” – hides a predatory and terrifying new government power to steal your child.
A Bill to “Protect” Illegal Immigrants
AB495 was introduced in February 2025 by newly elected Assemblywoman Celeste Rodriguez (D -San Fernando). Her bill is in response to President Trump’s executive order to find, detain, and deport illegal aliens, starting with gang members, criminals, and the millions with current deportation orders.
“The threats from the federal administration have led to fear in many communities, including mine,” said Assemblywoman Rodriguez. “We must do everything we can to safeguard families from separation and ensure children are supported.” She says AB495 is a “compassionate” solution for children of ICE-detained parents.
But this bill quietly erodes the parental rights of every California family. It’s a stealth move by the government to gain more control over your children and to interfere with lawful federal immigration enforcement.
For all of Assemblywoman Rodriguez’s assurances that this bill will only apply to children of illegals detained or deported by ICE, the language of the bill actually applies to any child for any reason. Any adult “caregiver” with a loosely defined “mentoring relationship” can take custody of your child.
Safeguards Stripped Away
AB495 would allow someone, not related to your child or even known to you, to remove your child from school, enroll them in another school, give permission for medical treatments, including vaccinations, drugs, mental health services, and transgender procedures – all without the parent’s knowledge or consent.
No background check, fingerprinting, home visit, court appearance, no Photo ID, or parental signature is required to gain “temporary” custody of your child. Any adult can fill out a one-page piece of paper called a Caregiver’s Authorization Affidavit and take your child.
In filling out the affidavit, a “caregiver” needs to provide only the name and birthdate of the child and the caregiver’s name and address to authorize taking the child. Declaring their relation to the minor and obtaining a driver’s license are not required.
No one who relies on the affidavit is required to verify the identity of the caregiver or will be held liable if the adult “caregiver” harms or traffics the child.. Not a doctor, not a school or daycare facility, or anybody.
One checkbox on the affidavit states, “I am unable to contact the parent(s) or other person(s) having legal custody of the minor at this time, to notify them of my intended authorization.” That one sentence alone can bypass a parent’s rights.
Anyone can falsely claim to be a “caregiver with a mentoring relationship” and assume legal authority over your child. This bill will open the floodgates for anyone with bad intentions to “kidnap” your child.
A Child Trafficker and Kidnapper’s Dream
Attorney Erin Friday, of Our Duty USA, a parent advocacy group, called AB495 “a child trafficker and kidnapper’s dream bill.”
“We’re talking about a legal pathway for predators to operate in plain sight,” Friday said. “All you need is a piece of paper and some form of identification, with no obligation for the adult handing the child over to verify the identification, and presto, someone walks away with your child. This bill is not about immigration. It’s about relinquishing parental rights to unvetted strangers under the guise of compassion,” says Attorney Friday.
Attorney Nicole Pearson, founder of Facts, Law, Truth, Justice, echoed Attorney Friday’s comments, saying, “This is not a compassionate bill designed to help the children of undocumented immigrants. It is a license to take vulnerable children and make them disappear.”
In essence, AB495 reduces the oversight requirements for who can be assigned authority over your child. It is ripe for opening the floodgates for misuse and abuse by those wishing to harm children. The bill removes existing protections to safeguard children being placed with dangerous predators.
AB495 will apply to ALL children in the state of California. For all of Assemblywoman Rodriguez’s misguided “compassion” for the children of illegal immigrants, these children will also be placed at an even greater risk of being taken by a predator.
This is the unintended consequence of AB495 – strangers taking a child and disappearing. The frightening prospect that an adult with evil intentions could easily obtain a child by filling out a one-page form without undergoing a background check and with no identity verification required should alarm us all.
Parental Rights are God-Given and NOT a “Gift” from the Government
Liberal government fails to realize that children do NOT belong to the state, to schools, or to social services. Children are a blessing from God, and parents have a sacred responsibility to raise their children in the way they should go.
“Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward.” (Psalm 127:3)
AB 495 is government overreach on steroids. It seeks to redefine guardianship in ways that will strip every parent of their right to make decisions for their children, and the bill puts the safety of all children at greater risk.
This bill will empower unrelated, unvetted adults with the authority to take any child they want, while silencing parents.
AB495 has already passed the State Assembly and is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Appropriations Committee on August 18. The time is NOW to pray and act.
“Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness but rather expose them.” (Ephesians 5:11 NIV)
URGENT CALL TO PRAYER
- Pray the Lord will stop this bill from even coming out of committee.
- Pray for a great uprising of parents to make their voices heard loudly so the ears of the legislators will be opened to hear, and they will vote righteously and according to God’s divine will for parents and their children.
- Pray for the protection of California’s children and their parents.
- Pray for the restoration of biblical parental authority in our nation.
- Pray for many to come and rally at the California Statehouse to oppose AB495.
“The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.” (James 5:16)
CALL TO ACTION FOR CONCERNED CALIFORNIANS
- If you live in California, contact your state senator to let them know you oppose AB495. You can do so here.
- If you live in California, call the seven members of the California Senate Appropriations Committee and ask them to oppose the bill. You can find their contact info here.
- If you live in the Sacramento area, Pastor Jack Hibbs is holding a STOP AB495 rally at the West Side Steps at the California State Capitol on Tuesday August 19, 2025 at 1 pm. Go here for more details.
- Spread the word to your church, your school, your family, friends, and neighbors, and urge them to contact their legislators to oppose the bill. Speak up. To quote Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil.”
“Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their rebellion.” (Isaiah 58:1 NIV)
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Belinda Brewster analyzes cultural, political, and world events from a biblical worldview. Belinda’s passion is to equip, support, and encourage parents and grandparents who are courageously battling against the spiritual and cultural forces impacting children and grandchildren. Photo Credit: AnkNet/Getty Images Signature via Canva Teams.
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This is a very evil thing I pray God doesn’t allow this to pass. God loves children and we must protect them I pray Father thru Jesus name. Alleluia King of Kings🙏🏼🙏🏼
Praying for the safety and protection of all children, especially in California. Rise up oh LORD and give victory to those fighting for your precious children!
“When the wicked are in authority, sin flourishes, but the godly will live to see their downfall.”
Proverbs 29:16 NLT
“When the godly are in authority, the people rejoice. But when the wicked are in power, they groan.”
Proverbs 29:2 NLT
“For the authorities do not strike fear in people who are doing right, but in those who are doing wrong. Would you like to live without fear of the authorities? Do what is right, and they will honor you.”
Romans 13:3 NLT
God turn our stiff necks open the eyes of those who follow your voice. We stand together in one accord in Jesus Name for freedom. Praying for schools and political infraction on freedoms for those in power to do good.
Father God bring your righteous light to shine upon this state called California. Let the leadership and the people see the all that is theirs both good and bad. Let nothing hide in any cave, cubby, or shaddow. . It is time for deception, avarice, and greed to become enslaved in chain reserved for the day of judgement, and the people become free in the deliverance of the most high God. I cry out for my brothers and sisters for the Day of Joel 2:32 to arrive for them. This day. Be free of deception California. Amen Amen to DOD be the Glory Amen Amen.
Our Heavenly Father. This bill that they are trying to pass AB495 needs
to be stopped dead in it’s tracks. It is written right out of the pits of hell.
This bill will allow people who are not children’s parents to pick them up
without ID or notes or anything and those parents may never see their
children again. This is open market for pedafiles, sex traffickers, kidnappers
and worse. Parental rights will be stripped away and they will be helpless
and always wondering what has happened to their children.
Please Lord control this situation. Let the Armies of Heaven be released
on this issue. Our children are our precious gifts from God and Jesus
always loved the little children to come unto him. Please stop this darkness
from spreading. Let there be many biblical protests regarding this in a sea
of people and army who cares about their children in California and that
other states don’t get wind of it in the Blue States.
Thank you Lord that you are always watching over us and our beautiful families
and that you will control this situation and turn it over to your Glory.
In Jesus name,
Amen and Amen!!!
Psalm 34:21 NLT Calamity will surely overtake the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be punished.
Father God, this is your word and we come to you for help. Set us free from all our fears. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
I prayed and am also acting! I’m sending this letter to Newsom who will have the opportunity on the 19th or 20th to sign or reject the bill because the bill has already gone to Senate. Ifa sent me to assembly rep, but that will not have any impact.
Gov. Newsom,
I’m requesting help for the children!
AB495–Please consider the following for their sake.
A person using the form to take responsibility for a child is not required to show valid ID, only to put the number of the ID on the form. Neither are they required to show proof of residence address. In addition, the person is required to alert school if they change their address or if the child no longer is in their care. If they do not notify the school, what then? It seems the only deterrent to (hopefully) prevent nefarious behavior on the part of the form holder is the warning:
Warning to Caregiver: Do not sign this form if any of the statements above are incorrect, or you will be committing a crime punishable by a fine, imprisonment, or both.
No actions can be taken if the person cannot be found!
Regarding the school authorities–the law tells them (if they bothered to read it!) that they are required to:
“first exhaust any parental instruction relating to the child’s care found in the child’s emergency contact information if an employee of a licensed child day care facility is aware that a child’s parent or guardian is not available to care for the child. The bill would encourage facilities to work with parents or guardians to update their emergency contact information. ”
However, the form says:
Warning to Local Educational Agencies and Health Care Service Providers: A parent’s signature or a seal or signature from a court is not required.
That warning should at least also include the part of the law that says they should use parents’ emergency contact information before releasing a child.
In my opinion, it would behoove you to refrain from signing this bill and encourage authors to make sure that they are REALLY making safe provisions for the immigrant children, that they close up the loopholes and increase the security of the children. To me, this just makes a way for traffickers to abuse or continue to abuse children who were (are being) brought across the border without their parents, or whose parents have been or are being deported. It may also open the way for them to gain access to non-immigrant children.
I do not want any children to be hurt!!!
DEAR LORD GOD
P;EASE DEFEAT THIS CRIMINAL BILL FOR US AND PLEASE FULLY PUNISH THE PERVERTS WHO CREATED AND APPROVEOF THIS SO-CALLED-BILL REGARDLESS OF WHO THEY ARE.
I ASK IN JESUS’NAME
AMEN
If you people of State of California, you all are so evil, terrible!!! Don’t even believe you even consider this bill!!! You are definitely ruining your state!!! Glad I visited when I did!!! No more visiting till you get brains, courage to get your so-called governor of your state out of government!!!
Father, I pray that this bill will be killed before it leaves the committee chambers! Protect our children and our families!
Lord, we pray, tear down these towers of evil as they seek to steal that which is Yours. We pray bind this evil ” legislation ” that it fail. We pray may parents, Christians rise up and stand against this evil. Lord, we pray, as Jesus taught us, deliver us from this evil.
What jerk came up with this bill? He needs to burn on a lumber stack!!!
A
SHE,
who was looking out
for illegal children picked up
by child services…
*NO ID REQUIRED*
TO SHOW WHO TOOK CHILD!!!
What madness blindness confusion delusion deception
Praying , Jesus Name…..”Who is Greater, Miracle Worker & Changer!” TO STOP THIS BILL IN IT’S TRACKS!
Convict the Hearts of these politicians or , Strike Them Down!
Jesus Name,
Amen!😎👊☝️⚔️✝️🙏
Father, we ask you to protect children. You said in Your word that if anyone causes these little ones to stumble it is better for them to have a millstone tied on their necks and they be drowned in the sea! God, yo will judge these legislators and groups of people such as Planned Parenthood who support such evil. Protect your people from the coming judgement. May people of California and the rest of country repent and come to know Jesus. Forgive us of our religiousity – holding to a form of godliness but denying its power. Father forgive us for our immorality, abortions and idolatry. Forgive us and revive your people. Forgive us of our bigotry, hatred and other sins. Come Lord Jesus, come, save your people, heal our land. In Jesus name we pray.
Abba, I come into agreement with Belinda’s prayer! Stir the citizens of California into action, Let the trumpet blast they release shake the state. Please protect our children, snatch them from the jaws of the enemy. Give parents wisdom and discernment, and the impetus to prioritize their children’s safety and well-being above all. This bill shall not pass!! In Yeshua’s name!! Thank You for Jack Hibbs and others who blew the shofar to warn and mobilize the warriors. May they arise in the power of Holy Spirit, and war effectively.
My Lord we pray that Rodriguez must apologize for that bill.
In The Name of Jesus we declare it is canceled.
All these corruption from the democrats we have had for 12 years have permeate in every way especially to destroy family.
We declare that this bill is canceled and not pass .
We pray for godly people to rule the state of California and that the fear of The Lord make them elect the right ones that will turn over the corruption in which the enemy has taken advantage of in Jesus Name. Amen
My OH My. This is the first comment about this article. Come on people. This “congresswoman” I pray will have the Hell scared out of her. May she be completely overcome with conviction and a glimpse of fire in Hell. With the power of heaven we come against this heinous attack on our children. Father, release Michael’s war angels against this evil in Jesus name.
Dearest Heavenly Father: We know as our Creator that you LOVE the children. Admonishing us that even adults must be as a little child to enter Heaven. We petition you and continue to pray YOUR WILL and your protection over YOUR children. We trust that you will work in our behalf to keep this horrible bill from passing. Open the eyes of the parents in this state and our NATION to stand up and vote against such a bill that strips the parent of their rights and subjects our children to such danger. We pray you will give us Victory over the devil in this and every situation. To you be all Glory, Honor, Power and Praise for you alone are Worthy to be PRAISED! Amen