Public Records

First Order of Business

April 22, 2026

Make a public records request for the records used to create the Assessment Ballot for all street lighting districts.

We can't disclose the strategy publicly for obvious reasons. We will be hosting teleconference calls for opponents of corruption in the City.

Background

The ballots that property owners are receiving in the mail contain crucial information used by the elections official to mail customized ballots to property owners subject to the tax.

Name
Mailing address
Property address
Assessor's identification number
Points assigned
Maximum assessment for tax year beginning July 1, 2026.

We're expecting that the city will stall on the public records request. Consequently, our goal is to have one or more prominent firms, organizations, or individuals make the formal request.

There is no benefit in having people flood the city with multiple requests.

However, we do need to make the request as soon as possible.

Requester Pecking Order

In order of desirability, the requester(s) should be:

1. A prominent law firm in the city.
2. A prominent law firm outside the city.
3. A law firm.
4. An active lawyer.
5. A prominent person in the business community.
6. A prominent organization in the community.
7. A person with name recognition in the community and effected by the tax.
8. More than one Neighborhood Council leaders, ideally from different city council districts.

To view the suggested written public records request (below) along with instructions, text your name and e-mail address to 909-378-5401.

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Instructions to Records Requester

Since the data file(s) being requested are needed for the opposition campaign, you are committing to provide the response to the request to us as soon as you receive it.

We don't expect the city clerk won't understand what is being requested. The city clerk is also expected to know the California Public Records Act. While the content of the request is completely in your hands, we would hope that you don't embellish the request with legalese and statute citations.

Rather than send the request in an e-mail message, you may wish to make the request by placing it in a PDF file and sending that file via e-mail.

Here's what we expect.

1. That you send the request within six hours of agreeing to be the requester.
2. That you CC or BCC the e-mail request to the following e-mail address:
3. That you alert us promptly if the request is acknowledged

City Clerk Contact Information

Patrice Lattimore (female)
200 N Spring St
Los Angeles, CA 90012
213-473-3231
cityclerk@lacity.org
http://clerk.lacity.gov/

Suggested E-mail Request

To: cityclerk@lacity.org

Subject: [Time-Sensitive] Assessment Election Electronic Public Records Request

Body:

Dear Ms. Lattimore,

According to the multi-page promotional mailing, the ballots for the Special Assessment have been mailed.

The clock is, therefore, ticking down to the June 2nd ballot return election deadline. Prompt attention to this request is expected.

We expect that you acknowledge receipt and processing of this request promptly. Under the circumstances, we would deem that using a policy of waiting 10 days or delegating this request to a lawyer, would likely be considered bad faith. Clearly, the records exist right now. Clearly the records were used by, perhaps, two different printing firms and possibly two different mailing firms to mail the glossy flyer and the official ballot. Based on the nature of the ballot, all the information that was used already came from publicly available records and some kind of calculation related to the points and assessment amount. We're not expecting that anything in the data files subject to an exception or redaction.

Please provide the data file(s) that contains the information used to generate the ballots for the Special Assessment Ballot for each assessment district for which ballots were mailed.

The file(s) may be in any non-proprietary data format, such as CSV (comma separated values), TSV (tab separated values), XLS, or XLSX.

We expect that the data file(s) will contain all the property-related information that was printed on the individual ballots. By examining a ballot, we believe that information is:

Name
Mailing address
Property address
Assessor's identification number
Points assigned
Maximum assessment for tax year beginning July 1, 2026.

If the data files(s) do not contain the assessment district identifier, we expect that separate data file(s) be provided.

Since the district 5500 file will be very large, a compressed version of that data file using the ZIP compression utility will be acceptable.

Another acceptable delivery method is via FTP. If you use FTP, we expect that you would provide the IP address or domain and folder where the files are located along with the password to access the folder. If you use FTP delivery, we request that you make the data files and password available for at least 5 business days.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this request.

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