Press Releases

January 23, 2026

FRAUD, WASTE, AND ABUSE INVESTIGATION ON HOMELESS SERVICE PROVIDER

January 9, 2026

Letter To Charter Reform Commission: Reject Proposed Changes To Move Accounting and Financial Functions Away From Controller

October 27, 2025

Assessment by Controller Kenneth Mejia of LAPD’s Mental Evaluation Unit (MEU) Finds LAPD Requires a Patrol-First, Armed Response in Mental Health Calls for Service

August 20, 2025

Controller Charter Reform Commission Recommendations

August 7, 2025

Controller Kenneth Mejia Announces Audit of the City of LA’s Risk Management Practices To Reduce Harm And Liability Payouts

June 6, 2025

Statement on Financial Impact of ICE Raids Using City Resources

June 5, 2025

Financial Distress, Noncompliant Properties, Habitability Concerns: Controller Kenneth Mejia Releases Audit of Affordable Housing Oversight, Calls for More Investment, Stronger Enforcement, Better Oversight To Improve Living Conditions

April 3, 2025

Controller Kenneth Mejia Releases Audit of Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance (TAHO) Implementation, Finds Program To Be Inadequately Serviced and Ineffective

March 4, 2025

Controller Kenneth Mejia Releases Latest March Revenue Forecast Report, Projects $140M Revenue Shortfall for Current Fiscal Year, Decreased Revenues Next Year

February 10, 2025

LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia Announces Audit of CARE/CARE+

February 6, 2025

Amid City’s Financial Crisis, Controller Kenneth Mejia Releases Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for FY 2024, Urges Collaboration and Long-Term Financial Planning

December 10, 2024

City Controller Kenneth Mejia Releases Performance Audit of Pathways To Permanent Housing in LAHSA’s and the City of Los Angeles’s Rehousing Systems

December 9, 2024

City Controller Kenneth Mejia Urges City Council to Allow Affordable Housing in Single-Family Zones

December 4, 2024

LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia Announces Audit of LA Animal Services Department

November 18, 2024

Statement from LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia on the LAPD’s 2024 AB 481 Report

November 14, 2024

LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia Determines that City of Los Angeles Underspent on Homelessness by Over Half a Billion Dollars in FY2024

August 27, 2024

City Controller Kenneth Mejia Releases Performance Audit of LAPD's Compliance with Military Equipment State Law AB 481, Urges City Council to Reject the Next LAPD Military Equipment Policy Until it Fully Complies with AB 481

July 26, 2024

Controller’s FWA Unit Prompts Immediate Corrective Action from LAHSA after Observing Inside Safe Provider’s Food Inventory Consists Almost Entirely of Instant Noodles

July 25, 2024

LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia Condemns Governor Newsom’s Executive Order Invoking Grants Pass Supreme Court Ruling to Direct Removal of Homeless Encampments

June 28, 2024

Controller Mejia Condemns Supreme Court Ruling Allowing Cities to Criminalize Homelessness

June 3, 2024

City Controller Kenneth Mejia Calls for City Council to Remove Several Proposed Charter Reforms

May 31, 2024

LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia Seeks to Enforce Subpoena Issued to City Vendor Urban Alchemy

April 18, 2024

LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia Releases Scope of Inside Safe Audit

March 28, 2024

900 Unhoused People Died in the City of LA in 2023, With 73% Dying in Streets or Similar Places – Controller Kenneth Mejia Releases 2023 Unhoused Deaths Map

March 20, 2024

City of LA Vacancy Rate Remains at 1 in 6 Jobs Unfilled – Controller Kenneth Mejia Releases Latest Update to Vacancy Data Tool

March 13, 2024

City of LA Liability Claim Payouts Totaled Nearly $472M from FY2020-2023 - Controller Kenneth Mejia Releases Website Charting Liability Claim Payout Data

March 6, 2024

Controller Kenneth Mejia Releases March Revenue Forecast Report with Projections through FY 2024-25, Continues to Urge Long-term Strategy to Reshape City Government Amid Troubling Fiscal Outlook

February 8, 2024

Controller Kenneth Mejia Urges Long-term Fiscal Reform Amid Grim Figures Published in FY23 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report

February 7, 2024

Projected deficits for years to come” Due to “Years of short-term budget balancing at the cost of long-term fiscal sustainability” - Controller Kenneth Mejia Releases Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for FY 2022-23

January 24, 2024

Controller Kenneth Mejia Launches City Council Discretionary Funds Spending Tracker

January 23, 2024

Controller Kenneth Mejia Statement on City Administrative Officer’s Report on City’s Bleak Financial Status

January 18, 2024

Controller Kenneth Mejia Announces New Audit of the City of Los Angeles Housing Department’s Affordable Housing Efforts

January 8, 2024

Nearly 5,000 Tenant Buyout Agreements Were Filed 2019 Through 2023 - Controller Kenneth Mejia Releases Map and Analysis of Cash For Keys Buyouts

December 11, 2023

61% of LAPD Helicopter Flight Time Spent on Non-High Priority Incidents, at a Taxpayer Cost of Nearly $50 Million Per Year, Sizeable Climate Impact - Controller Kenneth Mejia Releases Audit on LAPD Helicopter Program

December 5, 2023

Data Quality Issues Make it Nearly Impossible to Find Available Shelter Beds in the City of LA - Controller Kenneth Mejia Releases Homelessness Audit on Interim Housing and Shelter Bed Data and Demo Shelter Beds Map

December 4, 2023

6 out of 10 City Employees Don’t Live in the City of LA; $3.6 Billion in Pay Exited the City in 2022, According to New Analysis from Controller Kenneth Mejia

November 14, 2023

1 Out of 6 Jobs in City of LA Still Vacant - Controller Kenneth Mejia Releases Update to Staffing Vacancy Data Tool and Analysis

November 6, 2023

The Office of Controller Kenneth Mejia Releases Preliminary Financial Report for Fiscal Year 2022-2023

October 11, 2023

Controller Kenneth Mejia’s Nominee to the Ethics Commission, Rabbi Aryeh Eli Cohen, Confirmed by LA City Council

October 5, 2023

Controller Mejia Releases “This Is Not Fine: Hottest Summer on Record Calls for a Reboot of LA’s Climate Plan”, an Analysis of LA’s Green New Deal; Finds 2019 Climate Plan in Urgent Need of Reboot

October 5, 2023

LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia Releases an Update to 41.18 Map (1/1/21 to 9/15/23)

September 21, 2023

LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia Nominates Rabbi Aryeh Cohen to Los Angeles City Ethics Commission

September 20, 2023

1 Out of 6 Jobs in City of LA Vacant - LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia Releases City of LA Staffing Vacancy Data Tool and Analysis

September 12, 2023

LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia Announces New Housing Audit on the Implementation of the Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance (TAHO)

July 26, 2023

LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia Releases a Map of LAPD Arrests from 2019-2022

July 7, 2023

LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia Releases Financial Report, “Leveraging Idle Special Funds,” and Finds Unspent Money: Recommends City Spend $51 Million in Idle Funds, Including $10 Million for Housing & Homelessness

June 30, 2023

LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia Nominates Ethics Advocate Jamie York to Los Angeles Ethics Commission

June 22, 2023

Controller Mejia Releases Map of LAMC 41.18 Arrests

February 01, 2023

City Controller Kenneth Mejia’s office releases Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022

January 12, 2023

Controller Mejia's Statement on LAPD killing Takar Smith, Keenan Anderson, and Oscar Sanchez

December 28, 2022

Controller Mejia's Statement on City Council’s settlement with Mark Ridley-Thomas