Kelly Seyarto is a Republican member of the California State Senate for the 32nd District, in office since December 2022. A retired Los Angeles County Fire Department battalion chief, he served on the Murrieta City Council and as mayor of Murrieta, and represented the 67th Assembly District from 2020 to 2022.
Case
California's AB 2760 bars all law enforcement, including federal agents, from using electric shock gloves. Newsom and the author defend the ban. DHS and a federal prosecutor reject California's authority over federal agents. As of October 1, 2026, no court has ruled.
Role at the time: Republican state senator and vice chair of the Senate Public Safety Committee, speaking in the committee hearing on AB 2760
Response to this claim
First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said on September 29, 2026 that California has no jurisdiction to regulate federal agents and that he had advised the Department of Homeland Security to disregard AB 2760.
“from a federal immigration standpoint, it makes zero difference in what they're doing whatsoever, because we do not have that jurisdiction. I don't want to handcuff our local police.”
Relative to the ban as applied to federal officers, Seyarto rejects it on both questions: he says the state lacks jurisdiction over federal immigration enforcement, so the ban changes nothing for federal agents, and he calls the bill premature and a handcuffing of local police. We used Condemned because he rejects the ban as beyond the state's reach and unwise. The closest competing label is Challenges the characterization, because he disputes what the bill can accomplish, but he also opposes the policy and voted no.
Statement dates: August 26, 2026
Statement dates: August 26, 2026
Statement dates: August 26, 2026
