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ALT Controller Kenneth Mejia subpoenas LA28 after Olympics Organizing Committee refuses to hand over financial records & documents After years of refusing to provide contractually required financial records and documents, Controller Mejia demands transparency from LA28 to protect City of LA taxpayers LOS ANGELES – The Controller's Office issued a subpoena to LA28 today to demand the organization provide financial records and documents. The scope of the subpoena includes documents owed to the City of Los Angeles that LA28 has refused to provide in addition to information necessary for the Controller to ascertain the financial status of the 2028 Olympic Games. As the City’s accountant, auditor, and paymaster, the Controller has a responsibility to protect City of LA taxpayers from the impact of the LA28 Olympic Games. The City of LA is the financial backstop if the LA28 Games result in a financial deficit, exposing LA taxpayers to potentially unlimited financial obligations.
ALT Police lawsuits have cost LA nearly half a billion dollars since 2019, LAPD recruits stand for a uniform inspection at the Los Angeles Police Academy in Elysian Park on Sept. 18, 2026. (Christina House/Los Angeles Times)
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ALT Los Angeles Times article that says LA Olympics organizers limit some financial disclosures, a times review shows A picture of the LA Colliseum shows below the headline with stadium red seats
ALT Organizers of the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles have given vague and sometimes incomplete annual reports to the city on details of their preparations for what has been described as the largest athletic event in the nation’s history, records show. A review by The Times of five years of annual reports from LA28 shows that the organization appears at times to have curtailed the reporting requirements that are spelled out in its 2021 contract with Los Angeles.
ALT The private nonprofit organization’s yearly reports haven’t outlined progress on roughly two dozen venues around Greater Los Angeles. Nor have they included details about contracts LA28 signed with companies providing such services as security and preproduction work for the opening and closing ceremonies.
ALT The incomplete updates leave the city’s taxpayers with less information than promised on matters such as who is winning business — and the attendant jobs and profits — from contracts that soared to $687 million in value last year. They also don’t have as clear a picture on things like the progress on plans to install a running track at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and swimming pools inside SoFi Stadium in Inglewood.
ALT Los Angeles Times article that says LA Olympics organizers limit some financial disclosures, a times review shows A picture of the LA Colliseum shows below the headline with stadium red seats
ALT Organizers of the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles have given vague and sometimes incomplete annual reports to the city on details of their preparations for what has been described as the largest athletic event in the nation’s history, records show. A review by The Times of five years of annual reports from LA28 shows that the organization appears at times to have curtailed the reporting requirements that are spelled out in its 2021 contract with Los Angeles.
ALT The private nonprofit organization’s yearly reports haven’t outlined progress on roughly two dozen venues around Greater Los Angeles. Nor have they included details about contracts LA28 signed with companies providing such services as security and preproduction work for the opening and closing ceremonies.
ALT The incomplete updates leave the city’s taxpayers with less information than promised on matters such as who is winning business — and the attendant jobs and profits — from contracts that soared to $687 million in value last year. They also don’t have as clear a picture on things like the progress on plans to install a running track at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and swimming pools inside SoFi Stadium in Inglewood.
ALT Every Councilmember EXCEPT Eunisses Hernandez, Nithya Raman, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Ysabel Jurado, and Heather Hutt SIDELINED this proposal to strengthen audit powers for the City to look into LA28's finances at anytime (NOT AFTER the Olympics are complete) so LA taxpayers are protected. Shame. Thank you to the 5 CMs above though.
ALT L.A. City Controller Kenneth Mejia demanded last month that LA28, the private nonprofit producing the Games, release a much more detailed accounting of its activities than it has in yearly reports to City Hall. He has asked for bank statements, more detailed revenue and expenditure accounting and other documents. Advertisement
ALT “L.A. taxpayers need to know that LA28 is doing well. They want to make sure that those numbers are legit, which is why we’re requesting more information,” Mejia said in an interview. “Because if LA28 does not do well, then we as taxpayers, as the fiscal backstop, we’re on the hook.”
ALT Los Angeles Times article that says LA Olympics organizers limit some financial disclosures, a times review shows A picture of the LA Colliseum shows below the headline with stadium red seats
ALT Organizers of the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles have given vague and sometimes incomplete annual reports to the city on details of their preparations for what has been described as the largest athletic event in the nation’s history, records show. A review by The Times of five years of annual reports from LA28 shows that the organization appears at times to have curtailed the reporting requirements that are spelled out in its 2021 contract with Los Angeles.
ALT The private nonprofit organization’s yearly reports haven’t outlined progress on roughly two dozen venues around Greater Los Angeles. Nor have they included details about contracts LA28 signed with companies providing such services as security and preproduction work for the opening and closing ceremonies.
ALT The incomplete updates leave the city’s taxpayers with less information than promised on matters such as who is winning business — and the attendant jobs and profits — from contracts that soared to $687 million in value last year. They also don’t have as clear a picture on things like the progress on plans to install a running track at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and swimming pools inside SoFi Stadium in Inglewood.
ALT LAist article headline and photo headline says "Traffic fatalities in LA are outpacing 2025. Advocates are demanding action" there is a photo of street safety advocates standing with signs in a press conference to demand action on traffic violence as vehicle collisions in LA are outpacing last year.
ALT bar chart that shows City of LA Fy2024 to Y2026 Department OPerating budget changes: Increases have bars that go to the right and the higher the amount, the longer the bar goes right. Decreases have bars that go to the left and the higher the decrease, the longer the bar goes left Police +$131M (+7%) Fire +$61M (+7%) City Attorney +$20M (+12%) Housing +$20M (+22%) Community Invest. Families +$12M (+36%) City Administrative Officer +$4.3M (+11%) Ethics Commission +$1.6M (+29%) Office of Finance +$1.5M (+3%) Council +$1.4M (+4%) City Planning +$974k (+1%) Building & Safety +846k (+1%) Cannabis Regulation +843k (+11%) Emergency Management +835k (+20%) Mayor +410k (+4%) El Pueblo +$198k (+10%) Tourism +$106k (+6%) Zoo +$87k (+0%) Public Accountability +$43k (+1%) Employee Relations Board +$19k (+4%) Controller -$27k (-0%) Cultural Affairs -$679k (-3%) Neighborhood Empowerment -$714k (-19%) Youth Development -$800k (-34%) Disability -$841k (-14%) Civil, Human Rights, Equity -$1.3M (-25%)
ALT LAist article headline and photo headline says "Traffic fatalities in LA are outpacing 2025. Advocates are demanding action" there is a photo of street safety advocates standing with signs in a press conference to demand action on traffic violence as vehicle collisions in LA are outpacing last year.