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
2023-24 Legislative Platform
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.
2024 Public Safety Policy Principles
The Division’s Board of Directors, building on the Division’s 2024 Strategic Priority to “Support legislation, policies, funding and other resources that would improve public safety and address law enforcement challenges,” adopted policy principles related to organized retail theft. These principles will enable the Division to respond to the flood of bills from the Legislature and Governor on organized retail theft and other public safety matters.
2024 Budget Requests
Support $3 billion in ongoing funding to increase housing supply and reduce homelessness.
2024 Ballot Measures
Oppose The Taxpayer Deception 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.
2024 State Legislation
Governance, Transparency and Labor Relations
Support AB 817 (Pacheco) Local government: open meetings, as amended 5/29/24. 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: Senate Local Government
Housing and Homelessness
Oppose SB 1037 (Wiener) Planning and zoning: housing element: enforcement, as amended 6/13/24. Allows the Attorney General to take legal action against a city and seek fines up to $50K a month for failure to adopt a compliant housing element or if the city does not follow state laws that require ministerial approval of certain housing projects.
Status: Assembly Appropriations
Oppose AB 1886 (Alvarez) Housing Element Law: substantial compliance: Housing Accountability Act, as amended 6/11/24. Current law allows cities to “self-certify” their housing element or take the issue to court and have a judge make the final determination of substantial compliance. AB 1886 eliminates self-certification for the purpose of what it means to have a housing element “in substantial compliance with the law.”
Status: Senate Appropriations
Oppose Unless Amended AB 3093 (Ward) Land use: housing element: streamlined multifamily housing, as amended 6/17/24. Requires local governments to account for the housing needs of people experiencing homelessness in their housing elements without funding to develop the plan, implement strategies, or support the construction of affordable housing.
Status: Senate Housing
Public Safety
Support SB 21 (Umberg) Controlled Substances, as amended 5/02/24. 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. It will also require that a fentanyl-related defendant be referred to drug court or drug treatment programs.
Status: Assembly Rules
Support SB 905 ( Wiener) Crimes: theft from a vehicle, as amended 6/20/24. Makes forcible entry into a vehicle with the intent to commit theft or a felony a crime punishable by up to one year in a county jail. Further this bill would make the possession of stolen property with the intent to resell that property a crime punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony if the value of the property is higher than $950 therein a crime punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period not to exceed one year or imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years.
Status: Assembly Second Reading
Support SB 1262 (Archuleta) Crimes. Supervised release, as amended 5/16/24. Seeks reforms to supervised release protocols and ensures that the Board of Parole has a full picture of a potential parolee’s history.
Status: Assembly Public Safety
Support SB 1416 (Newman) Sentencing enhancements: sale, exchange, or return of stolen property, as amended 6/20/24. Creates a sentencing enhancement for selling, exchanging, returning for value, or attempting any of those actions with property that was acquired through one or more acts of theft from a retail business.
Status: Assembly Second Reading
Oppose AB 1725 (McCarty) Law enforcement settlements and judgements: reporting, as amended 6/5/24. Requires cities and counties to post financial details about law enforcement use-of-force settlements and judgments on their internet websites, including how much each settlement cost and how the state and municipalities will pay for each settlement.
Status: Senate Appropriations Suspense
Support AB 1960 (Rivas, R) Sentencing enhancements: property loss, as amended 6/20/24. Creates sentencing enhancements for taking, damaging, or destroying property during the commission of a felony.
Status: Senate Third Reading
Support AB 1990 (Carrillo) Criminal procedure: arrests: shoplifting, as amended 4/16/24. Allows police officers to make warrantless arrests for misdemeanor shoplifting offenses not committed in the presence of law enforcement.
Status: Senate Public Safety
Support AB 2045 (Hoover) Controlled substances: fentanyl trafficking penalties. Authorizes a sentencing enhancement for a defendant convicted of using, inducing, or employing a minor to transport or possess fentanyl, where the defendant knew the substance in question contained fentanyl.
Status: Assembly Appropriations Suspense-Dead
Support AB 2309 (Muratsuchi/Pacheco) City attorney: state law: misdemeanor, as amended 6/19/24. Allows city attorneys to prosecute any misdemeanor committed within their city provided that their city council passes an ordinance granting prosecutorial authority to the city attorney.
Status: Senate Public Safety
Support AB 2336 (Villapudua) Controlled substances: armed possession: fentanyl. Makes it a felony for a person to be in possession of a substance containing fentanyl while armed with a loaded and operable firearm. This felony is punishable by a state prison term of two, three, or four years.
Status: Assembly Appropriations Suspense-Dead
Support if Amended AB 2943 (Zbur) Crimes Shoplifting, as amended 6/20/24. Enacts the California Retail Theft Reduction Act, which contains multiple provisions pertaining to shoplifting, grand theft, criminal deprivation of a retail business opportunity, and theft-related probation and diversion.
Status: Senate Appropriations
Support AB 3171 (Soria) Controlled substances: fentanyl, as amended 4/30/24. Increases the penalties for offenses involving more than 28.35 grams of fentanyl or a fentanyl analog.
Status: Assembly Appropriations Suspense-Dead
Transportation, Communications and Public Works
Support AB 761 (Friedman) Local finance: enhanced infrastructure financing districts, as amended 5/21/24. Extends the statutory period of available Enhanced Infrastructure Financing Districts (EIFD) tax increment from 45 years to 75 years for districts created to fund zero-emission transit projects in Los Angeles County with federal financing through Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loans.
Status: Senate Third Reading
Support AB 1869 (McKinnor) Outdoor Advertising Displays: City of Hawthorne. Allows the City of Hawthorne to promote city services, businesses and community activities through digital advertising displays or “municipal message centers” operating within its city boundaries as “on-premises” displays.
Status: Dead, failed deadline
Oppose AB 2997 (McKinnor) Telephone corporations: carriers of last resort: tariffs, as amended 6/10/24. Allows a Carrier of Last Resort (COLR) to relieve itself of those responsibilities upon written notification to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) without providing a replacement service with the same affordability and reliability standards.
Status: Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications
2024 Federal Legislation
Support H.R. 1201 (Napolitano) Increasing Behavioral Treatment Act. Removes the Institutions for Mental Disease Medicaid restrictions which currently prohibit a psychiatric hospital or other residential family with more than 16 beds from receiving federal reimbursement for services provided to adults within that facility. In Los Angeles County, this exclusion has inadvertently limited facility capacity and contributed to a shortage of mental health beds.
Oppose H.R. 6859 (Kamlager-Dove) Gabrielino/Tongva Nation Recognition Act of 2023. Circumvents the current Federal Tribal Recognition process, bypassing the requirement for the Secretary of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to review impacts to local governments and eliminates opportunities for local jurisdictions to provide comments on any positive or negative public safety, environmental or other impacts to their communities.
2024 Regulatory
Request to reject AT&T application to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to withdraw its Eligible Telecommunications Carrier Designation and relief from its Carrier of Last Resort Obligation (COLR).
Status: CPUC Proposal Rejecting ATTs Request to Withdraw as Carrier of Last Resort
Updated 6/24/24
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 2024 Division Strategic Priorities
- Support legislation, policies, funding and other resources that would improve public safety and address law enforcement challenges.
- Support adequate state funding and other resources to increase the required supply of affordable housing and its required infrastructure.
- Advocate for direct and equitable ongoing 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. ed these Division Strategic Priorities for 2024:
The Board of Directors also identified Long Range Operational 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.
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Division Meetings / Events
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
Hyatt Regency, Long Beach
Register HERE
Wednesday, December 11, 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
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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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