Commissioner Qualifications and Restrictions.
Los Angeles City Charter § 812
in effectSec. 812. Commissioner Qualifications and Restrictions.
(a) Each Commission member shall be at least 18 years old, unless a lower minimum age requirement is established by ordinance. Each Commission member shall be a resident of the Los Angeles Unified School District at the time of selection, and shall have resided in the Los Angeles Unified School District for at least three years immediately preceding the person’s submission of an application. A Commissioner is not required to be a registered voter or a citizen of the United States.
(b) A person shall not be eligible to apply to or serve on the Commission if the person has been an employee of the Los Angeles Unified School District or a member of a Los Angeles Unified School District commission at any time in the four years immediately preceding the person’s submission of an application.
(c) A person shall not be eligible to apply to or serve on the Commission if the person or person’s spouse or family has engaged in the prior political and lobbying activities described in the California Elections Code provisions regarding eligibility requirements for independent redistricting commissions. Additional eligibility requirements may be provided by ordinance.
(d) Applicants to the Commission shall demonstrate collaborative skills, experience in civic engagement, and the ability to analyze complex data.
(e) While serving on the Commission, a member of the Commission shall not endorse, work for, volunteer for, or make a campaign contribution to, any member of the Board of Education or candidate for elective Board of Education office, or serve on a redistricting commission for any other governmental body.
(f) A member or former member of the Commission shall not do any of the following:
(1) Be a candidate for an elective Board of Education office unless more than five years have elapsed from the commissioner’s last date of service on the Commission or ten years have elapsed from the date of the commissioner’s selection to the Commission, whichever is less.
(2) Be a candidate for an elective Board of Education office for any district for which the election will be conducted using district boundaries that were adopted by the Commission on which the member served.
(g) For a period of four years after the last date of service on the Commission or ten years after the date of selection to the Commission, whichever is less, a member or former member of the Commission shall not do any of the following:
(1) Accept appointment to another commission of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
(2) Accept employment as a paid staff member of, or receive compensation as a consultant to, a member of the Board of Education or candidate for elective Board of Education office.
(3) Receive a non-competitively bid contract with the Los Angeles Unified School District.
(4) Act as a registered Los Angeles Unified School District lobbyist.
(5) Accept appointment to a Los Angeles Unified School District office.
(h) Alternate members of the Commission shall be subject to the same eligibility requirements, standards of conduct, and restrictions as other Commission members.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Charter Amendment LL, approved November 5, 2024, effective January 8, 2025.
Source: City of Los Angeles, Charter and Codes (American Legal Publishing, codelibrary.amlegal.com)URL: https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/los_angeles/latest/laac/0-0-0-127175Fetched: 10/24/2026