A kaleidoscope of neighborhoods, people, and culture.
The City of Los Angeles is a kaleidoscope of neighborhoods,
people, and cultures. There are 4 million people living
together in the City of Angels. People say Los Angeles is
the most diverse city in the world. People of all shapes
and sizes, origins and religions living together. People
who speak and dress differently, and celebrate different
feasts and holidays. People from all over the world - living
together.
In
Los Angeles, our diversity is our greatest strength. Learning
from each other, and understanding what makes us all unique
can help us appreciate our differences- and grow even stronger.
Working together in Los Angeles, we can do anything!
LA’s
Kaleidoscope of Neighborhoods
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City Attorney Delgadillo and
the students of Laurel Elementary School |
City
Attorney Rocky Delgadillo was elected by the people of Los
Angeles to serve as the chief legal advisor for the City
of Los Angeles. He manages the largest municipal law office
in the nation, with over 470 attorneys practicing both criminal
and civil law.
As
a criminal prosecutor, the City Attorney prosecutes all
misdemeanor criminal offenses occurring in the City of Los
Angeles. Misdemeanor crimes are punishable by up to $1000
in fines and up to one year in the County jail. Through
the Neighborhood Prosecutor Program,
City Attorneys work closely with police officers and community
members to address criminal problems, prosecute crimes,
and improve the quality of life in the neighborhoods of
Los Angeles.
Civil
law issues include assisting City Officials on all legal
matters related to governing the City, such as writing and
passing the laws that protect us, as well as issues involving
agreements, leases, and contracts. City Attorney’s
provide legal advice to the City’s Departments on
issues related to police and public safety, providing fire
protection and ambulances, protecting the environment, setting
up parks and recreation activities, taking care of our streets
and sidewalks, running the zoo, making sure we have water
and electricity, and creating many wonderful programs children
and teens throughout Los Angeles.
The
extensive size and scope of the office makes the Los Angeles
Office of the City Attorney Office very unique.
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City
Attorney Delgadillo and the Neighborhood Prosecutor
team oversee the demolition of a nuisance property
in
an El Soreno neighborhood
March, 2002
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City
Attorney Rocky Delgadillo is working to make your neighborhood
a safer and better place to live, learn, work, and play.
The City Attorney’s Neighborhood Prosecutor Program
brings attorneys into each of LA’s neighborhoods to
partner with community members and police officers and make
our neighborhoods safer, cleaner, and better!
All
Angelenos deserve to have quality of life in their neighborhoods.
Neighborhood Prosecutors are working to protect quality
of life by getting rid of graffiti, gangs, drugs, and abandoned
buildings in our City’s neighborhoods, and ensuring
that LA’s parks, schools, streets, and stores are
safer for you and all of the residents of our City to enjoy.
To
locate your neighborhood prosecutor, go to the neighborhood
prosecutor locator.
“In
the Courtroom” – Neighborhood Prosecutors work
with teachers and schools throughout Los Angeles to provide
students with an opportunity to learn about our legal system
in the courtroom. Students and teachers can observe an actual
trial and learn how juries are selected, how witnesses testify
and the role of the judges and attorneys during a trial.
If you are interested in watching a trial in court, please
ask your teacher to contact your school’s neighborhood
prosecutor.
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City Attorney Delgadillo reads
to the
students of Selma Elementary School
February 2002
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City
Attorney Rocky Delgadillo Opening Doors to Reading
Laurel Elementary School
THE
LA LITERACY CORPS
Experts
agree, reading is the single most important factor in a
child’s success -- not just in school, but throughout
life.
The
LA Literacy Corps and the Department of Water and Power
are building Green LA Reading Gardens in schools chosen
by caring partners throughout the City of Los Angeles. Concerned
businesses throughout Los Angeles are adopting schools to
help kids focus on reading in serene garden settings right
in their own schools. In addition, businesses provide trained
employee volunteers who read with children every week.
It
is important that we all contribute to giving every child
the opportunity to see the world through reading and to
be able to make choices and pursue lives as contributors
to our society.
For
additional information about how your school can become
a partner in the LA Literacy Corps, please contact:
Alma
Lujan-Castro
Director, LA Literacy Corps
Office of the City Attorney
Los Angeles
213.485.6338
alujan@atty.lacity.org
(LINK TO PHOTOS OF READING GARDENS)
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The Los Angeles Unity Bike
Ride
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Centro
De Los Ninos
11th Anuual Holiday Toy Lift
December, 2001
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