Aida Ashouri
Aida Ashouri is running for election for Los Angeles City Attorney in California. Ashouri is on the ballot in the primary on June 2, 2026.[source]
Elections
2026
See also: City elections in Los Angeles, California (2026)
General election
The primary will occur on June 2, 2026. The general election will occur on November 3, 2026. General election candidates will be added here following the primary.
Nonpartisan primary
Nonpartisan primary election for Los Angeles City Attorney
Incumbent Hydee Feldstein Soto (Nonpartisan), Aida Ashouri (Nonpartisan), John McKinney (Nonpartisan), and Marissa Roy (Nonpartisan) are running in the primary for Los Angeles City Attorney on June 2, 2026.
Candidate | ||
 | Hydee Feldstein Soto (Nonpartisan) | |
| Aida Ashouri (Nonpartisan) | ||
 | John McKinney (Nonpartisan) | |
| Marissa Roy (Nonpartisan) | ||
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2026
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Campaign website
Ashouri's campaign website stated the following:
A platform to make Los Angeles livable for everyone.
Holding slumlords accountable.
Rents are going up while buildings are falling apart. Over one in ten households report that they have mice or roaches in their homes, and that number doubles for low-income households. Every Angeleno deserves a safe and healthy place to live. The City Attorney should ensure that landlords are making repairs, but Hydee closed the Code Enforcement Unit that went after slumlords, so they are not facing any responsibility for creating uninhabitable conditions for tenants. As City Attorney, Aida will hold slumlords accountable for refusing to do repairs. She will reopen the Code Enforcement Unit, and also expand it to include violations of the Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance, which includes protecting tenants from landlords that try to push tenants out of their homes through harassment or refusing to do repairs. Landlords will be held responsible for failing to provide safe homes for tenants.
Protecting our rights to protest and be free from unreasonable search and seizure.
Support for immigrants and workers.
Los Angeles is the capital of wage theft, and we can improve it by opening more investigations, and publicizing them to send a message to other employers. Aida saw her immigrant single mother fight wage theft by taking her employer to court to sue to get her wages back. She's also worked on employment law cases to protect workers from discrimination and unfair workplace practices. Right now low-wage workers may be scared to come forward with their claims because of ICE. At Legal Aid, Aida created many know your rights webinars with multilingual interpretation and translation of materials to make them as accessible as possible. As City, Attorney, by reproducing this same framework, and publicizing information in multiple languages, and also creating a hotline for people to report their claims available in multiple languages, we can empower workers and make the office more accessible.
Safeguarding our environment.
Aida is a longtime environmental justice advocate. She has worked with Communities for a Better Enviroment to stop the reopening of an oil refinery in Norwalk, helped communities organize against a toxic site in their neighborhood with CalPIRG, and taken on Chevron when the largest oil refinery in SoCal wanted a blank check to pollute in the South Bay. She is not afraid to stand up to polluters and hold them accountable. Communities of color all over Los Angeles suffer higher rates of pollution. The Exide plant operated for years in violation of environmental laws that the state was aware of but did nothing to stop. Aida will reopen the Environmental Crimes Unit in the City Attorney’s office that Hydee closed to prosecute environmental crimes to protect these vulnerable residents, like those in Porter Ranch that had to suffer from the methane leak. She will bring civil or criminal actions against polluters, and work to move City Council towards banning and capping oil wells near homes in LA.
Supporting survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
Domestic violence is one of the main drivers of homelessness. People experiencing sexual or intimate partner violence can have difficulty reporting the crimes for a myriad of reasons ranging from shame, a mistrust of police, or fear of retribution. Aida wants to change the way these crimes are approached, the goal should be to assist the survivors, and employ more social workers to provide support and resources. As well, she will develop more effective consequences for perpetrators such as rehabilitation to maintain family networks. She will create a department to develop this new approach that will also pursue restraining orders to remove weapons from homes involving intimate partner violence.
Prioritizing mediation and restorative justice in our communities.
As a Deputy City Attorney, Aida worked with Neighborhood Prosecutors and volunteers that were key in making the City Attorney's robust office work more effectively. These are both programs that Hydee has closed. During these tumultuous times, we need to create community, and focus on repair rather than retribution. The Neighborhood Prosecutor program not only connected the community to the City Attorney's Office, it was also key to resolving issues without punitive measures. Not only will Aida restart this program, but she will also make it more robust by including mediation programs, and restorative justice elements in order to resolve issues without courtrooms.
Housing over handcuffs.
More than half the arrests in Los Angeles are misdemeanors. A misdemeanor can destroy someone’s life, lead to job loss, homelessness, and a cycle of poverty. By focusing on alternatives to incarceration, we can repair our communities and make them stronger than ever. Prior to Reagan’s War on Drugs, drug addiction was considered a public health rather than a criminal issue. Criminalization of drug use does not lead to a reduction in addiction, but rather creates a cycle of poverty. The War on Drugs has resulted in an explosion in people in jails and prisons. Not only is this a drain on our communities but it is also a drain and misdirection of our tax dollars. Aida will focus on drug rehabilitation and providing services like housing rather than criminalizing addiction or poverty.
Taking concrete action to make our streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists.
For the past two years, more people have died at the hands of traffic violence than homicides, at rates not seen in decades. Aida will advise the city of its responsibility to make streets safe, which the CA Supreme Court affirmed this year in Whitehead v. City of Oakland, and to reduce its liabilities for having dangerous streets. She will advise the city to follow Measure HLA passed by the voters to build better infrastructure where there have been incidents of traffic violence, to avoid future lawsuits and tragedies. Los Angeles is the capital for hit and runs in the country, and for leniency when it comes to vehicular crimes, Aida will ensure that these crimes are taken seriously and that people will feel safer in our streets.
— Aida Ashouri's campaign website (March 19, 2026)
See also
2026 Elections
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