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Measure G
Measure G is the 2024 ballot measure that created an elected Los Angeles County executive, expanded the Board of Supervisors from five members to nine, required an independent Ethics Commission and made a number of other changes to the county charter. It achieved structrual changes that county critics have been seeking for decades.
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Tell truer stories about L.A. County's past and present
The county has provided the Governance Reform Task Force with a false history, which threatens to produce unsound policy choices.
What California can learn from L.A.’s hot mess era of governmental reforms
Los Angeles County moved fast and made mistakes but seems to be getting the government reform job done. L.A. city studied up a storm and still can't make a decision.
Supervisors move forward on ethics commission amid debate over role of sheriff, D.A.
There is some irony in the decision to let the assessor appoint a member to the Ethics Commission but not the district attorney. Former Assessor John Noguez is currently on trial for bribery. District Attorney Nathan Hochman is the former president of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission.
Supervisors to take up ethics proposal; task force frustrated in quest for independent counsel
It turns out that you can't create an independent Ethics Commission, or even talk about one, if you don't get to pick your own lawyer.
Ethics reform effort spotlights county dysfunction, shortens tempers
Measure G promised Los Angeles County voters an independent Ethics Commission. County culture, and the county Charter, got in the way.
LA County repealed its own justice reforms
Measure J makes L.A. County stand apart. Come to think of it, so does Measure G, which threatens to cancel out Measure J.
Why is Karen Bass getting so much blame for the LA fires but county supervisors so little?
The January 2025 fires torched Mayor Karen Bass' political career, but left the Los Angeles County supervisors politically unsinged. Why?