Los Angeles County Division
The Los Angeles County Division is made up of 86 cities within Los Angeles County and provides members with the opportunity to exchange ideas and information and share the advantages of cooperative advocacy. It includes more than 11 million people, stretches 4,500 square miles — making it one of the nation's largest counties — and is led by more than 550 elected officials.
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The division is guided by an executive committee under the leadership of a division president. Elected city officials and professional city staff attend division meetings throughout the year to share what they are doing and advocate for their interests in Sacramento. Division members also participate in the development of Cal Cities policy through representation on:
- The Cal Cities Board of Directors;
- Policy committees;
Division Officers
- Commission on Alcohol & Other Drugs
- Commission on Local Governmental Services
- Countywide Criminal Justice Coordination Committee
- Emergency Medical Services Commission
- Los Angeles County Metropolitan Authority Technical Advisory Committee
- Solid Waste Management Committee/Integrated Waste Management Task Force
The Los Angeles County Division (Division) recognizes the need for an active and timely county, state, and federal advocacy program to protect the interest of cities throughout Los Angeles County. As a subunit of the League of California Cities (Cal Cities), the Division relies on Cal Cities’ Summary of Existing Policy and Guiding Principles as the primary tool for a focused advocacy strategy for the Division’s Board of Directors and staff.
The Division’s Legislative Platform is intended to help direct staff, in consultation with the Division President and Vice President, to act on a time-sensitive issue when the Division’s Executive board is unable to meet. The Legislative Platform is not exhaustive of all issue areas of relevance to the Division and is not intended to supplant the deliberative role and actions of the Division’s Legislative Committee.
Ballot Measures
The Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act Initiative No. 21-0042A1
Limits voters’ input, adopts new and stricter rules for raising taxes and fees, and makes it more difficult to hold state and local law violators accountable.
Division Position: Oppose
Status: Qualified for November 2024 Ballot
Budget Requests
Support $3 billion in ongoing funding to increase housing supply and reduce homelessness.
Safeguard local revenues and supporting local fiscal sustainability.
Repay nearly $1 billion in state-mandated program costs owed to local governments.
Restore FY 23-24 State Transportation Funding to honor and restore previously committed transportation funding for Intercity Rail Capital Programs, Active Transportation, Safety Grade Separations and the State Highway Account.
Legislation
Governance, Transparency and Labor Relations
Oppose SB 251 (Newman) Political Reform Act of 1974: elected officers: conflicts of interest. Prohibits an elected officer from employment by any other elected officer with the same constituency, except if the elected officer first began their employment by the other elected officer with the same constituency on or before December 31, 2023. The bill would not apply to statewide elected officers.
Status: 2-year bill, no Division action.
Support if Amended SB 411 (Portantino) Open meetings: teleconferences: neighborhood councils. Currently limits teleconference capability to Neighborhood Councils in the City of Los Angeles and should be amended back to its introduced language allowing appointed bodies to teleconference meetings without having to notice and make publicly accessible each teleconference location.
Status: Signed
Assembly Votes
Senate Votes
Support if Amended SB 537 (Becker) Open Meetings: multijurisdictional, cross-county agencies: teleconferences. Currently limits members of multijurisdictional bodies to participate remotely only if the meeting location is more than 40 miles (one-way) from their home, among other limitations. The bill should be amended back to its original language to allow appointed bodies of a multijurisdictional agency to teleconference meetings without having to notice and make publicly accessible each teleconference location.
Status: 2-year bill, no Division action.
Support AB 557 (Hart) Open Meetings: local agencies: teleconferences. Eliminates the January 1, 2024, sunset on the provisions of the Brown Act that provided additional flexibility for local agencies looking to meet remotely during an emergency while still maintaining public access and transparency under AB 361 (R. Rivas, 2021). The bill would also extend the renewal period for resolutions declaring the use of AB 361 to 45 days (up from 30 days). By doing so AB 557 would provide accommodation for those agencies regularly meeting on a fixed date every month.
Status: Signed
Assembly Votes
Senate Votes
Support AB 817 (Pacheco) Local government: open meetings. Provides a narrow exemption under the Ralph M. Brown Act for non-decision-making legislative bodies currently governed by Act, such as advisory bodies and commissions, to participate in two-way virtual teleconferencing without posting physical location of members.
Status: 2-year bill, no Division action.
Support AB 1379 (Papan) Open Meetings: local agencies: teleconference. Requires a legislative body electing to use teleconferencing to post agendas at a singular designated physical meeting location rather than at all teleconference locations. Allows quorum to be established by remote participation, at the designated physical location, or at both the designated physical meeting location and remotely. Also requires the legislative body to have at least 2 meetings per year in which the legislative body’s members are in person at a singular designated physical meeting location.
Status: 2-year bill, no Division action.
Oppose AB 1484 (Zbur) Temporary public employees. Requires inclusion of temporary employees in the same bargaining unit as permanent employees and that the wages, hours, plus terms of condition of employment for both temporary and permanent employees must be bargained together in a single memorandum of understanding.
Status: Signed
Assembly Votes
Senate Votes
Housing, Community and Economic Development
Oppose SB 423 (Wiener) Land use: streamlined housing approvals: multifamily housing developments. Expands SB 35 (Chapter 366, Statutes of 2017) provisions and eliminates the January 1, 2026 sunset date, permanently requiring cities to ministerially approve certain housing projects without public input or environmental review.
Status: Signed
Assembly Votes
Senate Votes
Homelessness
Oppose Unless Amended AB 309 (Lee). The Social Housing Act. Creates the Social Housing Program within the Department of General Services (DGS) to facilitate the construction of government-owned housing on leased state property or excess state-owned property. Cities would have no ability to regulate zoning or development standards, including floor area ratios, height limitations, or density requirements.
Status: Governor's Veto Message
Assembly Votes
Senate Votes
Concerns AB 799 (Rivas) Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program: Homelessness Accountability and Results Act. Requires regions, defined as counties, continuums of care, and large cities, to develop a regional homelessness action plan every five years, which must be submitted to the state for approval, for future rounds of the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention (HHAP) program.
Status: 2-year bill, no Division action.
Concerns AB 1679 (Santiago) Transaction and use taxes: County of Los Angeles: homelessness. Authorizes the County of Los Angeles to impose a transaction and use tax of up to .50% if approved by county voters for homeless services, homeless prevention and affordable housing.
Status: Signed
Assembly Votes
Senate Votes
Public Safety
Support SB 44 (Umberg) Controlled Substances. Requires a court to provide a written advisory to a person convicted of selling fentanyl notifying the person of the danger of selling or administering illicit drugs and counterfeit pills and of the potential future criminal liability if another person dies as a result of that person’s actions.
Status: 2-year bill, no Division action.
Support SB 602 (Archuleta) Trespass. Extends the effective duration of Letters of Agency from 30 days to 12 months and the operative timeframe of trespass authorization letters from 12 months to 3 years for the purpose of removing graffiti and mitigating other public nuisances on private property visible from public rights of way.
Status: Signed
Assembly Votes
Senate Votes
Support AB 33 (Bains) Fentanyl Addiction and Overdose Prevention Task Force. Establishes the Fentanyl Addiction and Overdose Prevention Task Force, consisting of law enforcement, public health officials, and healthcare providers to coordinate an effective response to the fentanyl crisis. The task force will focus on a number of different strategies, including increasing access to overdose-reversing drugs, improving substance use disorder treatment and recovery support, and crafting strategies to reduce the availability of illicit fentanyl.
Status: Signed
Assembly Votes
Senate Votes
Support AB 40 (Rodriguez) Emergency medical services. Requires procedures and standards to improve ambulance patient offload time (APOT).
Status: Signed
Assembly Votes
Senate Votes
Support AB 367 (Maienschein) Controlled Substances: Enhancements. Applies the “great bodily injury” enhancement to any person who sells, furnishes, administers, or gives away fentanyl or an analog of fentanyl when the person to whom the fentanyl was sold, furnished, administered or given suffers a significant or substantial physical injury from using the substance.
Status: 2-year bill, no Division action.
Oppose AB 436 (Alvarez) Vehicles. Repeals the authority given to local authorities to prohibit cruising. This bill would also remove a provision prohibiting a common modification made to cars used in cruising to have the vehicles ride low to the ground roadway.
Status: Signed
Assembly Votes
Senate Votes
Support AB 474 (Rodriguez) State Threat Assessment Center: transnational criminal organizations. Requires the State Threat Assessment Center (STAC) and the Office of Emergency Services (OES) to prioritize cooperation with state and local efforts to illuminate, disrupt, degrade, and dismantle criminal networks trafficking opioid drugs and to support state and local interagency task forces to combat illegal opioid trafficking, including preparing and disseminating intelligence products for public safety entities.
Status: Governor's Veto Message.
Assembly Votes
Senate Votes
Support AB 701 (Villapudua) Controlled substances: fentanyl. Increases the penalty and fine for trafficking controlled substances containing heroin, cocaine base, and cocaine to fentanyl.
Status: Signed
Assembly Votes
Senate Votes
Oppose AB 742 (Jackson) Law enforcement: police canines. Prohibits the use of police canines to: arrest or apprehend a person; crowd control; bite; or train a police canine inconsistent with these prohibitions.
Status: Inactive, no Division action.
Support AB 955 (Petrie-Norris) Controlled Substances. Creates a new crime for selling fentanyl on a social media platform.
Status: 2-year bill, no Division action.
Oppose AB 1034 (Wilson) Law enforcement: facial recognition and other biometric surveillance. Prohibits a law enforcement agency or law enforcement officer from installing, activating, or using any biometric surveillance system in connection with an officer camera or data collected by an officer camera and would authorize a person to bring an action for equitable or declaratory relief against a law enforcement agency or officer who violates that prohibition.
Status: Inactive, no Division action.
Support AB 1708 (Muratsuchi) Theft. With voter approval, would require a person convicted of petty theft or shoplifting, if the person has two or more prior convictions for specified retail theft-related offenses, to be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for up to one year. Additionally, this measure would offer pre-plea diversion opportunities.
Status: 2-year bill, no Division action.
Transportation, Communications and Public Works
Oppose AB 825 (Bryan) Bicycles and sidewalks. This bill would prohibit a local authority from prohibiting the operation of a bicycle on a sidewalk adjacent to a highway corridor that does not include a bikeway.
Status: Governor's Veto Message.
Assembly Votes
Senate Votes
Oppose AB 1082 (Kalra) Authority to Remove Vehicles. Removes the authority of cities to tow, impound, immobilize a vehicle with repeated vehicle violations and prohibits the DMV from refusing to renew the registration of a vehicle unless the registered owner or lessee has 3 or more parking violations.
Status: 2-year bill, no Division action.
Oppose AB 1637 (Irwin) Local government: internet websites and email addresses. Requires cities and counties to secure and utilize their website through a new .gov or ca.gov domain no later than January 1, 2027. It would also require all employee email addresses to reflect the updated domain within the same time frame.
Status: Signed
Assembly Votes
Senate Votes
City Legislative Platforms
Senator Steven Bradford (District 35)
1 Manchester Boulevard, Suite 600
Inglewood, CA 90301
Phone: (310) 412-6120
Phone: (818) 901-5588
Phone: (213) 745-6656
Phone: (310) 450-0041
Phone: (310) 641-5410
Phone: (714) 529-5502
Phone: (323) 264-4949
Phone: (661) 286-1565
VACANT (District 62)
The Division's Board of Directors meet every fall to review the previous year’s accomplishments and adopt strategic goals for the following year.
The Board of Directors identified these Division Strategic Priorities for 2023:
- Support legislation, policies, funding and other resources that would improve public safety and address law enforcement challenges.
- Support adequate funding and other resources to increase the supply of affordable housing and its required infrastructure.
- Advocate for direct funding and other resources to address homelessness.
- Support legislation and policies that protect and preserve local decision-making authority over land use, housing, and other matters traditionally reserved for cities. Oppose unfunded mandates and seek funding for prior unfunded mandates.
The Board of Directors also identified Long Range Strategic Priorities:
- Outreach to federal, state and county representatives, specifically newly-elected and those officials in leadership.
- Encourage Los Angeles County Division city officials to apply for Cal Cities’ leadership positions and other related committee appointments to reflect the region’s population and influence.
- Provide educational and training opportunities for Los Angeles County Division city officials on effective legislative outreach and advocacy.
- Communicate and share value of Cal Cities and Division resources.
Division Meetings / Events
Thursday, June 6, 2024
6:00-8:30 p.m.
General Membership Meeting
Los Angeles Air Force Base, El Segundo
Register HERE
Thursday, August 1, 2024
6:00-8:30 p.m.
Annual Installation Ceremony & Dinner
Chandelier Room at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia
Register HERE
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
11:30 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Lunch during Annual Conference
Location TBD, Long Beach
Thursday, December 12, 2024
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Annual All Cities Holiday Reception
California Club, Los Angeles
Please note that all event cancellations must be received at least 72 hours prior to any Los Angeles County Division event. "No shows" will be charged the attendance fee. You may e-mail or call Division staff to cancel your attendance.
January 4, 2024: General Membership Meeting
Per-Arraignment Release Protocols (PARP) Update featuring Darren Arakawa and David Slayton
Division Newsletter
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Contact Staff
Jennifer Quan
Regional Public Affairs Manager, Los Angeles County Division
(626) 786-5142
Kristine Guerrero
Regional Public Affairs Manager/Los Angeles County Division Legislative Director
(626) 716-0076
Jeff Kiernan
Regional Public Affairs Manager, Los Angeles County Division
(310) 630-7505
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