Email recieved from the Los Angeles City Attorney's office on October 14, 2003, in response to an inquiry by Hal Netkin

==============================================================================

Oct 14, 2003

Dear Mr. Netkin

You have posed the following two questions:

A)1. May a felon who is a registered sex offender on parole vote as a stakeholder in a neighborhood council election?  Yes or No.

A)2. May a felon who is a registered sex offender on parole run for office as a board member in a neighborhood council election?  Yes or No.

As to your Questions A 1 and 2, based on the current City Charter, which can be amended, the answer to both of your questions is, "yes."

Gwen Poindexter

Office of the City Attorney

Managing Assistant

Neighborhood Council Advice Division

(213) 978-2236