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🥳 CONGRATULATIONS to the City of LA on setting a NEW RECORD for LIABILITY PAYOUTS! 🥳 Liability payouts get taken out of the General Fund, not from the responsible department's budget. This leads to the defunding of other City departments and is contributing to city layoffs.

🔎 Talking about our latest Performance Audit on the City's oversight and monitoring of our Affordable Housing stock. The City oversees about 47,000 affordable housing units but still needs over 400,000 affordable housing units to meet the needs of low-income households.

As the City of LA sets a RECORD in Liability Payouts for FY2025 paying $286 million (FY2024 was $255M), many have asked: "WHY DOESN'T THE CITY TAKE CASES TO TRIAL?"🤔 Trial Outcomes: • FY2024: lost 19 / won 11 • FY2023: lost 12 / won 3 Our dashboard: liabilityclaims.lacontroller.app

✨Ranked Choice Voting✨ ✨Smaller City Council Districts✨ ✨Independent Budgeting for the Controller ✨ These are some reforms to the City that YOU could vote for in 2026!  Changes like these are discussed in Charter Reform Commission meetings. Get involved!

Our Affordable Housing audit found properties charging higher rent than allowed. Some units charged 30% higher than the rent limit! GOOD NEWS: The Housing Dept (LAHD) plans to implement our recommendations to better enforce rent and income limits.

‘There is nothing to buy’: Gaza’s descent into mass starvation on.ft.com/40EaHxs

Breaking News: Israeli military officials say they have no proof Hamas routinely steals UN aid, undercutting a claim Israel has used to limit food for Gaza. nyti.ms/4opoK4n

NEW🚨 In 2024, our FRAUD, WASTE, & ABUSE (FWA) Unit received 708 cases (up 61%)‼️ EXAMPLES🔎 - City employee saved pornographic material on city phone & used position for personal gain on a building project - Officer issued unenforceable parking tickets bit.ly/fwa-2024

What's the Controller's Office up to? 🤔 📚 Closing the books since the fiscal year just ended 📝 Working on two audits (Animal Services & Sanitation) & about to launch a new one 👀 🔎 Fraud, waste, & abuse investigations 💪🏼 Constant financial transparency & handling payments

Despite having only 5 Fraud, Waste, and Abuse investigators for the entire city (40,000+ employees and 40+ departments), our FWA Unit thoroughly evaluates all cases. New report: bit.ly/fwa-2024

UPDATE 📣 - City of LA employee layoffs and - the City paying ANOTHER $40 million more than they needed to for the police pension contribution (watch our May 20th video for details) Keep sharing and following along to know what your City is doing 💰

CITY OF LA LIABILITY PAYOUT NEWS 📰 🚔 $500,000 settlement to two reporters who LAPD arrested while covering a past protest ❌ Recently, a Judge ordered the LAPD to stop shooting journalists covering protests w/ rubber bullets 💰 $9,361,763 paid out in first month of FY2026

Today, federal agents targeted & arrested day laborers & street vendors at Home Depot despite a federal restraining order. People are hiding in fear. Our City should provide relief during these times: rent increase caps, eviction moratorium, and water/power & other necessities.

🚨 NEW AUDIT 🚨 We're auditing the City of LA's risk management practices to REDUCE HARM & LIABILITY PAYOUTS‼️ The City must do its best to manage risks before they lead to injuries, death, and the claims, litigation, & payouts that follow (a BIG reason for our budget deficit).

Submitting a public comment to the Charter Reform Commission is quick and easy! 📧 Email [email protected] The next meeting is TOMORROW (Saturday) at 10am at the Encino Community Center, 4935 Balboa Blvd., Encino CA 91316 Visit reformlAcharter.lacity.gov for more info!

This week marks the 60th anniversary of the Watts Uprising. The initial spark was a drunk driving arrest on August 11, 1965, but below the surface, the ensuing 6 days of civil unrest were fueled by years of neglect and alleged police abuses.

What is the City of LA doing to REDUCE HARM & LIABILITY PAYOUTS? 🤔 On ABC7 talking about our NEW AUDIT we just launched to dig into that! 🔎

HOW the City of Los Angeles stays BROKE We encourage everyone to ask your elected officials: "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING ABOUT THESE LIABILITY PAYOUTS?"

CITY OF LA RESIDENTS:🥺🙏 "PLEASE FIX our sidewalks, roads, street lights, city facilities, & animal shelters!" "PLEASE FUND youth development, senior & disability services, childcare centers, neighborhood empowerment, & economic development!" ___ CITY OF LA GOVERNMENT: 🏛️✂️💩