Marissa Roy promised not to enforce the law that protects your kid's school.
On June 3, 2022, Marissa Roy posted this on Twitter:
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"we need a City Attorney who commits not to enforce 41.18."
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That's the law that keeps homeless encampments away from schools, daycares and other sensitive areas in our neighborhoods. And it wasn't a slip. She's wrote entire articles demanding an end to enforcement against the encampments.
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She's been clear. She doesn't want the law enforced. Period.
The City is Working to Protect Neighborhoods from Encampments. Marissa Roy would tie its hands.
Los Angeles Municipal Code 41.18 is the city's anti-camping law. It lets the City Council ban sitting, sleeping, and storing belongings within 500 feet of schools, daycares, parks, libraries, and other sensitive places. Before any enforcement happens, the city has to post signs, give advance notice, and offer services. The City Attorney is the office that prosecutes violations. That means the City Attorney decides whether the law gets enforced or ignored.
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Where Roy stands
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Marissa Roy has publicly committed to not enforcing this critical law to protect neighborhoods.
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In June 2022, she tweeted: "we need a City Attorney who commits not to enforce 41.18."
Six weeks earlier, she called the law "as ineffective as it is cruel."
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She has stood by that position. She wrote the the City Attorney is the "Most Important Politician in LA’s Homelessness Crisis" and demanded "that we elect a city attorney who firmly commits to non-enforcement of 41.18."
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If Roy is elected City Attorney, 41.18 stops working. Encampments near your kid's school, your local park, your library can proliferate.
Not because the City Council changed the law. Because a City Attorney like Marissa Roy refused to do her job.