Prioritize repeat offenders and quality-of-life crimes, treat misdemeanor enforcement as an essential City Attorney function, and retain diversion and services when appropriate.
Replace one-size-fits-all misdemeanor prosecution with community-informed strategies, expand diversion for eligible defendants, and retain prosecution where warranted.
Issue with the biggest divide
Homeless encampments
Keep sidewalks passable, address dangerous encampments, connect people experiencing homelessness with housing, treatment, and support, and enforce Los Angeles Municipal Code §41.18.
Focus homelessness-related misdemeanor cases on resolving underlying problems and connecting people to services, while avoiding penalties that impede housing stability.
Corporate accountability lawsuits
Pursue an Airbnb lawsuit if legally warranted.
Use civil enforcement against deceptive businesses, pursue litigation addressing consumer fraud, and expand the office’s public-rights work.
Federal immigration enforcement
Defend Los Angeles residents regardless of immigration status and oppose unconstitutional ICE raids and federal overreach.
Defend Los Angeles’ sanctuary policies, initiate challenges to federal immigration actions, and use misdemeanor authority against qualifying ICE misconduct.
Gun possession cases
Prioritize illegal firearms possession cases because they pose immediate public-safety risks.
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2021 to presentLos Angeles Prosecutor, Angelina County District Attorney's Office
Deputy District Attorney
2023 to presentDeputy Attorney General, California Department of Justice
