An Abbreviated Version of the Chart of In-House City Attorney’s Offices in Southern California
August 29, 2011 Leave a comment
By Michael Reiter, Attorney at Law
Usually WordPress is a very reliable platform, but in this case, it did not like the chart that I created to illustrate my earlier post. Here is a more readable post without information about each City’s City Attorney:
| City Name | Pop. (2011 est.) | City Form Charter or General Law | Full Service? | Elected/Appointed | # Attorneys | 2011-’12 Budget | Prosecute State Law Misdemeanors? |
| San Bernardino County | |||||||
| San Bernardino | 211,076 | Charter | Y | E | 10 | $3,026,000* | No |
| Redlands | 69,231 | General Law | Y | A | 1 | $429,237* | No |
| Riverside County | |||||||
| Moreno Valley | 195,216 | General Law | N | A | 3 | $910,535* | No |
| Riverside | 306,779 | Charter | Y | A | 14 | $3,451,041 | No |
| Los Angeles County | |||||||
| Burbank | 104,304 | Charter | Y | A | 11 | $3,614,447 | Yes |
| Compton | 96,925 | Charter | N | E | 4 | Not Online | No |
| Culver City | 38,973 | Charter | Y | A | 4 | $1,779,809 | No |
| Glendale | 192,473 | Charter | Y | A | 13 | $3720156* | No |
| Hawthorne | 84,854 | General Law | N | A | 3.6** | $551,447 | Yes |
| Inglewood | 110,028 | Charter | N | A | 10** | $2,342,133** | Yes |
| Long Beach | 463,894 | Charter | Y | E | 22 | $8,585,107 | No |
| Long Beach City Prosecutor | Included Above | Charter | Y | E | 17 | $4,824,978* | Yes |
| Los Angeles | 3,810,129 | Charter | Y | E | 444 | $94,950,894* | Yes |
| Palmdale | 153,334 | Charter | N | A | 2 | $3,988,760 | No |
| Pasadena | 138,915 | Charter | Y | A | 20 | $6,467,000* | Yes |
| Redondo Beach | 66,970 | Charter | Y | E | 6 | $2,496,915* | Yes |
| Santa Monica | 90,174 | Charter | Y | A | 24.5 | $8,672331* | Yes |
| Torrance | 145,927 | Charter | Y | A | 6 | $2,160,322* | Yes |
| Orange | |||||||
| Anaheim | 341,034 | Charter | Y | A | 23 | $5,592,143 | Yes |
| Huntington Beach | 190,377 | Charter | Y | E | 7 | $2,311,624* | Some |
| Newport Beach | 85,376 | Charter | Y | A | 5.7 | $2,298,563.87*** | No |
| Orange | 136,995 | General Law | Y | A | 4 | $1,411,049* | No |
| Santa Ana | 325,228 | Charter | Y | A | 8.5 | $2,081,395* | No |
| Ventura County | |||||||
| Oxnard | 199,722 | General Law | Y | A | 5 | $1,336,917* | No |
| Simi Valley | 125,026 | General Law | N | A | 4 | $983,400* | No |
| Thousand Oaks | 127,557 | General Law | N | A | 4 | $1,564,032* | No |
| Ventura | 107,124 | Charter | Y | A | 4 | $1,711,112 | No |
| San Diego County | |||||||
| Carlsbad | 106,555 | Charter | Y | A | 4 | $1,336,460* | No |
| Chula Vista | 246,496 | Charter | Y | E | 8 | $2,271,182 | No |
| Escondido | 145,196 | General Law | Y | A | 7 | $1,873,925 | No |
| National City | 58,785 | General Law | Y | A | 2.5 | $703,760 | No |
| Oceanside | 168,173 | Charter | Y | A | 6 | $1,535,860 | No |
| San Diego | 1,311,882 | Charter | Y | E | 147 | $42,442,992* | Yes |
| Vista | 94,431 | Charter | N | A | 3 | $1,011,603 | No |
| Imperial | |||||||
| El Centro | 43,145 | Charter | Y | A | 3** | $588,772** | No |
| * 2011-2012 Proposed | |||||||
| ** 2010-2011 Adopted | |||||||
| *** Includes Outside Counsel budget | |||||||
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Copyright 2011 Michael Reiter, Attorney at Law.
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About Michael Reiter, Attorney at Law
Michael Reiter, Municipal Attorney. Partner with Cole Huber, LLP in Ontario, Roseville California 