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In October 2025, California's governor signed a law requiring police to disclose how they use generative artificial intelligence, the first law of its kind in the state.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Gov. Gavin Newsom this month signed a first-of-its-kind California law requiring police to disclose how they use generative artificial intelligence”
New State Law Requires Additional Safeguards When Police Use Generative AI, Kerry Klein, KQED (with KVPR, Fresno), 2025, Opening paragraph of the article.
Open the original- What it measures
- The article is dated October 27, 2025, so 'this month' refers to October 2025.
- What it does not show
- The article does not reproduce the bill text. The details of the disclosure duty come from the enacted law, which we could not fetch, so they are not stated as facts here.