Norwalk, CA Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

Subsection (o)(1) creates two separate paths to a trespass charge for a person who won't leave property that isn't open to the general public: a peace officer who tells the person to leave at the owner's request and identifies that they're acting on the owner's behalf, or the owner, the owner's agent, or the person in lawful possession telling the person directly. Ordinarily the owner must make a fresh request to a peace officer every time help is needed, but subsection (o)(1) also allows a single notarized written request on a law-enforcement-agency form to cover a specific period up to whichever is shorter of 12 months or a period set by local ordinance, when a fire hazard exists or the owner is away, and a separate notarized request can cover up to 12 months when the property is closed and posted as closed; the request can be submitted electronically and automatically expires if the property is sold or possession changes.

The subsection carves out an exception for lawful labor union organizing under the Alatorre-Zenovich-Dunlap-Berman Agricultural Labor Relations Act or the federal NLRA, and for housing authority tenant property it does not reach constitutionally protected activity or guests invited by a resident who aren't otherwise breaking a law. In Norwalk this statute is what backs a posted 'No Soliciting' sign or a verbal instruction to leave; the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (Norwalk's contract law enforcement) and the City's Public Safety Department are the agencies that respond to and enforce refusal-to-leave calls under this section.