LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia

Official Account for LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia, CPA
💰City's Accountant & Auditor
🔎Transparency & Accountability

[LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia @lacontroller]

Our Fraud, Waste, & Abuse (FWA) Investigation into a homeless service provider.

Besides our homelessness FWA investigation, please see our other homelessness transparency and accountability efforts.

Homeless Dashboard: https://t.co/0dSBkJlV1z

Audits: https://t.co/MO6cOwxPpH

[Stay Housed LA @stayhousedla]

If your landlord is cutting services, ignoring repairs, or pressuring you to move out, you may have protections under the City of LA’s Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance (TAHO).

Renters can visit https://t.co/70Dwpa6Dgl to learn their rights and access free resources.

[LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia @lacontroller]

LA City Council voted 12-1 on FY2027's $14.8 BILLION budget.

☎️ More Unarmed Crisis Response
🚗 Safe Parking LA saved
🐶 More $ for Spay & Neuter
⚖️ More $ for RepresentLA
🚔 More $ for LAPD ($3.6 bil budget)

CD2 & CD4 tried to get us more auditors but not enough support. 💔

[LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia @lacontroller]

🚒 LAFD budget increase to $1.5B vs. last year's $1.2B adopted budget

🏠 No change to Home Sharing Ordinance. Will be discussed in Planning & Land Use Committee

Thank you CD2 & CD4 for trying to get us more auditors. Unfortunately, not enough support & referred to Committee.

[LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia @lacontroller]

LA City Council voted 12-1 on FY2027's $14.8 BILLION budget.

☎️ More Unarmed Crisis Response
🚗 Safe Parking LA saved
🐶 More $ for Spay & Neuter
⚖️ More $ for RepresentLA
🚔 More $ for LAPD ($3.6 bil budget)

CD2 & CD4 tried to get us more auditors but not enough support. 💔

[LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia @lacontroller]

🐶 Increase for Spay & Neuter funds for 8,000 ADDITIONAL sterilizations

⚖️ Increase funds for RepresentLA for immigration legal services, from $1M to $1.5M

🚔 Increase in LAPD budget from $3.3B to $3.6B while the number of sworn officers will stay the same

[LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia @lacontroller]

Two years ago, City Hall cut our fraud, waste, and abuse unit's budget.

Today, we still haven't gotten those investigator positions back.

Even AFTER catching TENS of MILLIONS of $ in fraud, waste, and abuse with only FIVE investigators for the 2ND LARGEST CITY IN THE COUNTRY -

[LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia @lacontroller]

📢 GIVE PUBLIC COMMENT
Wednesday, May 20, at 10AM
At City Hall

OR

Submit online public comment: https://t.co/Z9p6MCLJET (Council file 26-0600)

[LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia @lacontroller]

Two years ago, City Hall cut our fraud, waste, and abuse unit's budget.

Today, we still haven't gotten those investigator positions back.

Even AFTER catching TENS of MILLIONS of $ in fraud, waste, and abuse with only FIVE investigators for the 2ND LARGEST CITY IN THE COUNTRY -

[LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia @lacontroller]

-of taxpayer dollars. That’s hundreds of millions of dollars of questionable costs!

Tell your City Council Member to fund the Controller's audit and fraud, waste, and abuse unit in next fiscal year's budget! They will vote on the final budget this Thursday, May 21! 📢

[LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia @lacontroller]

Check out our TAHO audit that we did where LAHD is working on implementing most of our audit recommendations. The City also updated the ordinance as well! 🏠

https://t.co/LtflX4bTNo

[LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia @lacontroller]

NEW AUDIT 🚨

🔎 We audited the City’s implementation of the Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance (TAHO)

❌ The City is failing to hold LANDLORDS WHO HARASS TENANTS accountable

❌ TAHO is ineffective because of inadequate resources, design & implementation

https://t.co/wCAwpGdggt

[LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia @lacontroller]

Our Top 100 Problem Rental Properties made the NEWS! 📹

Check out https://t.co/2tVqOm0juu!

We also made a few updates based on your feedback! 🏠

[LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia @lacontroller]

🏢We ranked the TOP 100 PROBLEM RENTAL PROPERTIES in the City of LA

Top 3 addresses with the most housing violation cases:
🥇636½ N Hill
🥈11700 W Wilshire
🥉6650 W Forest Lawn

Look up violations for any residential address, Dec 2013 - Nov 2025:
https://t.co/2tVqOm0juu

[LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia @lacontroller]

We hope our new dashboard helps renters & organizers document patterns of harm & helps put pressure on both landlords and the City to act.

Everyone deserves safe, stable & dignified housing.

https://t.co/2tVqOm0juu

[LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia @lacontroller]

🏢We ranked the TOP 100 PROBLEM RENTAL PROPERTIES in the City of LA

Top 3 addresses with the most housing violation cases:
🥇636½ N Hill
🥈11700 W Wilshire
🥉6650 W Forest Lawn

Look up violations for any residential address, Dec 2013 - Nov 2025:
https://t.co/2tVqOm0juu

[LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia @lacontroller]

There has never before been an uncomplicated way for anyone to look up years’ worth of violations by address.

Our dashboard centralizes over 10 years’ worth of housing complaint & violation data into a single database.

[LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia @lacontroller]

How the City of LA's Screw-Up in excess police contributions (contributing more than they needed to at the time) keeps taking MILLIONS MORE that could fund things like Animal Welfare or our Audit / Fraud, Waste, & Abuse Unit.

BTW, this is NOT LAPD's fault, it's City Hall's. 💰