You are invited to join Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer* in conversation with Federation President & CEO Jay Sanderson. As L.A.'s chief lawyer and prosecutor since July 2013, Mr. Feuer has brought an innovative, problem-solving focus that combines tough and effective prosecution with initiatives to improve public safety and the quality of life throughout Los Angeles. The City Attorney’s Office has also been at the forefront of local and national issues and wants to hear from young leaders. The discussion will center on important civic issues impacting our city and today’s young adults.
Complimentary parking is available in the visitor (west) lot adjacent to the building.
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If you have any questions, please contact Rachel Zaiden at RZaiden@JewishLA.org or (323) 761-8236.
Through the Jewish Federation's Community Engagement initiative, we bring together leaders from different backgrounds and perspectives to learn and work together on important issues in Los Angeles and Israel, promoting civil discourse and helping the Federation strengthen our community.
*Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer has long been one of California's leading lawyers and lawmakers. He has been L.A.’s chief lawyer and prosecutor since July 2013 and always finds ways to artfully blend creative problem solving with effective prosecution for the betterment of our city. Feuer’s office also has been at the forefront of key national issues ranging from gun violence prevention and consumer protection to justice system reform and challenges to recent federal policies that threaten fundamental rights and public safety. Feuer was reelected in March 2017 to a second term without opposition. In 2017, the American Bar Association presented its top award in the nation for a public sector law office to Feuer’s office — the first City Attorney’s office ever to receive the distinguished Hodson Award, recognizing “sustained, outstanding performance or a specific and extraordinary service by a government or public sector law office.”
Feuer has focused on neighborhoods, nearly tripling the Neighborhood Prosecutor Program and creating a Community Justice Initiative — an array of innovative, neighborhood-based programs focused on quality of life crimes, truancy, prostitution, homelessness, and more — to reduce recidivism and address root causes of crime. He has expanded a project to rid problem properties of gangs, guns, and drugs that threaten neighborhood safety.
Under the City Attorney’s broad authority, Feuer has brought a wide-range of lawsuits to protect consumers. For example, Feuer’s office was the first government agency to take action against Wells Fargo over its opening of unauthorized accounts.
A national leader in preventing gun violence, Feuer created the City Attorney’s Gun Violence Prevention Unit and has worked aggressively to keep guns out the hands of criminals and children. He has brought charges against adults who did not properly store firearms which later fell into the hands of children, and, with the LAPD, created protocols to assure domestic violence perpetrators do not have weapons. In a groundbreaking national effort, Feuer joined with Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. to co-found and chair Prosecutors Against Gun Violence — an independent, non-partisan coalition devoted to prosecutorial and policy solutions to the public health and safety crisis of gun violence.
Following the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, Feuer created the Los Angeles Blue Ribbon Panel on School Safety. The Panel held hearings across Los Angeles and issued a report of recommendations this summer.
Previously, Feuer served as the Majority Policy Leader of the California Assembly and Chair of the Assembly's Judiciary Committee, writing many of California's most important public safety, children's health, transportation, consumer protection, and environmental laws. Feuer jointly authored the Homeowners' Bill of Rights and the Iran Contracting Act. He wrote the Crime Gun Identification Act and the Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Act, as well as the nation's most comprehensive law to remove cancer-causing chemicals from consumer products, the law requiring insurance companies to insure children with pre-existing conditions, the law authorizing L.A. County's transformative transportation initiative, Measure R, and much more.
As a Los Angeles City Council member, Feuer chaired the Budget and Finance Committee, delivering on-time, balanced budgets, fighting successfully for anti-gang and after-school programs, jobs for disadvantaged youth, and meals for indigent seniors. Feuer wrote some of America's toughest laws to curb gun violence, initiated L.A.'s 3-1-1 non-emergency services system, and spearheaded ethics and business tax reforms.
He and his wife, Gail Ruderman Feuer, have been married for 35 years and have two children, Aaron and Danielle.
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