California

California, U.S. state · CA. Records, connections and sources from free public data, each linked to where it came from.

Last updated: 8 Nov 2026.

Where it appears in the data

• Money · cmte donors (People & Money)
• H-1B visa filings (Immigration)
• Money · adv monthly (People & Money)
• SBIR / STTR awards (Education)
• Activism · events (Domestic Intelligence)
• Rosters · member votes (People & Money)
• Flock · cameras (Domestic Intelligence)
• Charging · stations (Domestic Intelligence)
• Money Extra · lobby clients (People & Money)
• Money · candidates (Domestic Intelligence)
• Immigration · cbp state (Immigration)
• Power network (People & Money)
• Signals · matrix (Briefing)
• Electricity · retail (Macro)
• Contractors · by state (People & Money)
• Jurisdiction · state profiles (Domestic Intelligence)
• Religion · rcms groups (Domestic Intelligence)
• Education · naep groups (Education)
• Insurance · counties (Domestic Intelligence)
• Immigration · ipeds (Immigration)

In today's data

• California: 113 full road closures in effect — US-101 S: Caltrans : Roadwork on US-101 Southbound between I-80 W (San Francisco) and Cesar Chavez St (San Francisco). All lanes closed. Avoid the area. From 11:00 PM Friday, November 06, 2026 to 6:00 AM Monday… (511 SF Bay, Caltrans, 8 Nov 2026)
• California college system drops $193M on sprawling cliffside hotel — as in-state students fork over $50K a year on tuition (New York Post, 7 Nov 2026)
• Settlement recorded: Mercedes-Benz Group — Kenan Abdullazade v. Mercedes-Benz USA LLC · District Court, C.D. California (Federal courts, 5 Nov 2026) MBG.DE
• California courts have the most law firms on tracked organisations' cases: 3,023 of 11,870 nationally — 4,265 cases there · Next: New York 1,201, Texas 1,017 · Firms appear for either side; spellings of one firm are counted together · A case is an allegation until a court rules (Federal courts, 5 Nov 2026)
• Regular gasoline, California: $5.748 a gallon, -14.0¢ on the week — +139.0¢ on a year earlier (EIA, 1 Nov 2026)
• Texas recorded 26% of CBP encounters in fiscal 2027 through October: 7,333, -14% on the same months a year earlier — against the same months of fiscal 2026: Texas -14%, California -10%, Florida -2% · by the state where the encounter was recorded, airports included (U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 30 Oct 2026)
• 69,621 other religious organizations are on the IRS register beside 292,944 churches; California has the most churches (33,711) — Registered with the IRS, not all congregations: churches need not apply for recognition. Other religious means religion-related organizations (ministries, religious media, orders) that are not churches. File of October… (Internal Revenue Service (Exempt Organizations Business Master File), 12 Oct 2026)
• California new ZEV sales (by make): Tesla leads with 50.3% (Q3 2026), +3.5 points on Q2 2026 — #2 Toyota 7.5% · #3 Hyundai 6.0% · share of new zero-emission vehicles sold in California, Q4 2025 to Q3 2026 (312,198 vehicles; battery, plug-in hybrid and fuel cell; Q3 2026 preliminary); 39.8% in the four quarters… (California Energy Commission, New ZEV Sales (DMV registrations), 29 Sep 2026) TSLA
• California new ZEV sales (by model): Tesla Model Y leads with 35.9% (Q3 2026), +3.5 points on Q2 2026 — #2 Tesla Model 3 11.1% · #3 Hyundai IONIQ 5 4.8% · share of new zero-emission vehicles sold in California, Q4 2025 to Q3 2026 (312,198 vehicles; battery, plug-in hybrid and fuel cell; Q3 2026 preliminary); 23.2% in the… (California Energy Commission, New ZEV Sales (DMV registrations), 29 Sep 2026) TSLA
• California led new H-1B approvals by filing state in fiscal 2026: 25,857 of 126,857 (20%) — against fiscal 2025: California +20%, Texas +32%, New York +5% · the employer's filing state, not where the worker lives (USCIS, 29 Sep 2026)
• 44 AI laws and rules are in force across 18 jurisdictions, 3 more are coming — most on file: United States (federal) (13), California (8), European Union (3) · 48 instruments in all, each linked to its official page · the corpus is reviewed by hand; a bill is not law until enacted (Official texts of each law and rule, 29 Sep 2026)
• California's FAIR Plan insures 686,376 policies at the end of its 2026 fiscal year, +6.9% on 2025 — Policies in force on 30 September each fiscal year, residential, commercial and business-owner lines together. Regular insurers did not renew 788,485 California home policies in 2023. (California FAIR Plan Association, 29 Sep 2026)
• State and local public funds held $405B in big-tech stock at the end of June 2026, 47.0% of the stock they report, +5% on the quarter before — California's funds hold the most ($80.8B) · the same big-tech and AI supply-chain companies the corporate footprint follows · only funds that file a 13F count: a low number can mean the money sits with outside managers (SEC Form 13F, 29 Jun 2026)
• California leads with 6.1% of its registered light-duty vehicles electric (2025); the nation is at 2.5% — Battery plus plug-in hybrid share of each state's fleet. Lowest: North Dakota 0.37%, Mississippi 0.37%. (Alternative Fuels Data Center (U.S. Department of Energy), 30 Dec 2025)
• 39,088 in-person protest events across the states in 2025, -3% on 2024; most in California — 302 events with arrests; reported crowds of at least 8,073,206 people. Counts follow population, so the largest states lead. (Crowd Counting Consortium, 30 Dec 2025)
• California has the highest foreign-born share, 27.2% of residents in 2025; United States 14.7% — The five highest of 50 states and DC, foreign-born residents as a share of the population. Net international migration in the year to July 2025: Florida 7.6 per 1,000 residents, the highest; United States 3.7. (Census Bureau (American Community Survey), 30 Dec 2025)
• California had the most alternative schools: 1,083 in 2024-25 — California -0.7% on 2023-24 (1,091) · 48 states and DC reporting (NCES Common Core of Data, 29 Jun 2025)
• Donors in District of Columbia gave the followed committees $553M in the 2023-24 cycle, 16% of what they raised in itemised gifts — $248M in 2021-22 · California 15%, Texas 10%, New York 8% · the state a donor lives in, as the donor filed it (FEC, 30 Dec 2024)
• California: 114,995 international college students in fall 2024, -1% on 2023 — 4.2% of the state's college students · students on temporary visas (IPEDS fall enrollment, 30 Oct 2024)
• California awarded the most bachelor's degrees: 217,700 in 2023-24 — California -0.9% on 2022-23 (219,691) · U.S. 1,959,325 · 50 states and DC reporting · most associate degrees California, certificates California, master's degrees California, doctor's degrees California (IPEDS completions, 29 Jun 2024)