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Rocky Delgadillo
Los Angeles City Attorney
A native of the Eastside of Los Angeles, Rocky Delgadillo became the highest-ranking Latino to win citywide office in more than 100 years when he was elected Los Angeles City Attorney
on June 5, 2001.
Upon first taking office, Delgadillo began implementing innovative programs to achieve his vision of a better and safer Los Angeles. His top priorities include fighting crime, improving quality of life in our neighborhoods and reducing the city's civil liabilities. Many of the crimes the City Attorney's Office prosecutes are gang- and narcotics-related. Delgadillo has enforced and increased the number of gang injunctions to take on notorious gangs that terrorize neighborhoods.
Mr. Delgadillo's efforts went well beyond fiscal responsibility. Education and after-school activities help deter teens from joining gangs. That's why Delgadillo created Operation Bright Future, a tough anti-truancy program that targets sixth-graders with excessive absences. Operation Bright Future teaches parents about the importance of education and ultimately holds parents legally responsible for making sure their kids go to school.
Mr. Delgadillo's signature program is the Neighborhood Prosecutor Program. For the first time in the city's history, prosecutors work in the neighborhoods, get to know residents on a firstname basis, and attack quality-of-life crimes where they occur. Neighborhood Prosecutors work with residents, elected officials and city agencies to drastically cut illegal dumping, graffiti and illegal street racing, to name a few of the problems. The program won a city Productivity Award in 2002 for its first-year achievements.
Before his election, Delgadillo was the Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles for Economic Development, where he worked to attract new jobs for the neighborhoods that needed them the most. He created an efficient, neighborhood-friendly approach to business development and helped bring more than $20 billion in private investment to the city in four years.
Prior to joining the mayor's office, Delgadillo was Director of Business Development for Rebuild LA, a nonprofit formed to bring investment into Los Angeles neighborhoods ravaged during the 1992 civil unrest, and served as a senior attorney at O'Melveny & Myers.
Mr. Delgadillo attended public schools, including Franklin High School in Highland Park. He earned a scholarship to Harvard University, where he graduated with honors, and received his law degree from Columbia Law School.
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