The city of Santa Clarita has taken down its voter-information website, votesantaclarita.com, city officials confirmed Monday.
Typing in that address now takes residents to santaclarita.gov/city-clerk/elections, where viewers are told to “Please contact the Clerk’s Office for more information,” in the section where “Campaign filings” were once available.
The city of Santa Clarita confirmed the decision to disable the link to “campaign disclosure statements from votesantaclarita.com and santaclarita.gov/city-clerk/elections while it takes measures to ensure the confidential information is properly redacted,” according to an email Monday sent from Carrie Lujan, director of communications for the city of Santa Clarita.
The campaign filings that are no longer available on the city’s website contain information about which interests have donated to candidates and how much.
Questions about campaign finance also came front and center in Santa Clarita last year after Mayor Bill Miranda said he was “smelling something” that was apparently wafting from a land deal on Main Street.
A donation that had been made to Councilman Jason Gibbs‘ campaign later prompted Gibbs to recuse himself from that vote.
City officials made the move in order to be compliant with Assembly Bill 1392, according to Lujan’s statement.
“Next to the inactive link is a message to contact the City Clerk’s Office for more information. Campaign disclosure records are subject to the California Public Records Act, and the city will respond appropriately pursuant to the law,” she wrote in her statement.
“AB 1392, effective Jan. 1, 2026, makes the residential address, telephone number and email address of any candidate for elected office or elected official confidential. In compliance with this new legislation, the city of Santa Clarita disabled the link to campaign disclosure statements from votesantaclarita.com and santaclarita.gov/city-clerk/election,” according to the city.
Lujan said Tuesday there was no timeline available for when the site would be back online.
In anticipation of the law, several cities, including Burbank and Glendale, have already moved to be in compliance with the law with the redacted records posted online.
The statewide push to increase opacity around the publication of officials’ residences follows the murders last year of Minnesota lawmakers John Hoffman and Melissa Hortman, who are mentioned in the bill’s analysis.
It passed both houses of the state Legislature in September with near unanimous support, including Sen. Suzette Martinez-Valladares, R-Acton, and Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo, D-Chatsworth.
It raises a transparency issue that could arise for the city, which will face questions about such disclosures regarding property and residency in only the city’s second district-based election, one with three spots up for grabs.
