The Governor has signed into law a bill co-authored by a South Coast legislator intended to help protect children from identity theft.
AB 1580 allows a parent, guardian, or conservator to freeze the credit of a child under 16 years old. Democratic Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin of Thousand Oaks says she felt the law was needed because child identity theft often goes unnoticed for years, until the child is old enough to apply for a job or student loan.
Irwin says children, and even infants have increasingly become the targets of cybercriminals because they have unblemished credit records.
