DEAR LOS ANGELES,

Thank you for picking up this booklet to learn more about the future we’re building at LA Civil Rights. In 2022, we celebrated our second year as a city department, and our first full year in our office space and John Lewis Conference Center in the LA Mall.

In many ways, 2022 was our biggest year yet. So much of what we have been building came to fruition this past year: The city’s first Discrimination Enforcement Unit, the city’s first Participatory Budgeting program, and the city’s first Office of Racial Equity, developed in partnership with Los Angeles communities, and many other equity based programming.

This is just the beginning. Already, 2023 has seen twice as many communities engage in our Participatory Budgeting program, an expansion of our discrimination investigation capacity, and new first-time programs to support equity, justice, and an LA for All.

If there’s only one thing you take away from this year’s Annual Report, it’s that LA Civil Rights is serious about moving our city into a brighter future - where communities are more meaningfully engaged with government, individuals have access to greater empowerment, and hate is met with swift justice and unified solidarity. So many of our programs are the first of their kind for Los Angeles - but they will not be the last. The seeds of equity we plant today will bloom into a more empowered, connected, and safer city tomorrow - and are helping us write LA’s next great chapter.

Thank you for being on this journey with us, and for your commitment to justice, equity and inclusion in the City of Angels.

Keep the faith and keep the fight,