# Marissa Roy *candidate · Los Angeles City Attorney* — November 3, 2026 General Election (2026-11-03), Los Angeles County, California Research pack generated 2026-10-30T23:52:30+00:00 by ballotscope. Summaries are LLM-generated from the linked originals and may contain errors; check the originals before relying on anything. Sources span 2021-05-24 to 2026-10-28. ## Overview (as of 2026-10-29, from 21 sources) Marissa Roy, 34, a California deputy attorney general in consumer protection, led the June 2026 primary with 43.1% and faces prosecutor John McKinney in the runoff [Who will be Los Angeles' next city attorney?]. She wants the office to be a 'public interest law firm' that sues exploitative landlords, employers and corporations and litigates against the Trump administration [Meet Marissa Roy, candidate for Los Angeles City Attorney; Leaked files, 'nuclear verdicts,' bruising attacks: Inside the L.A. city attorney race; Your guide to the L.A. city attorney's race: McKinney vs. Roy]. She also pledges diversion for nonviolent misdemeanors and lower liability costs through less outside counsel and more prevention [Meet Marissa Roy, candidate for Los Angeles City Attorney; From Defender to Enforcer: Marissa Roy's Case for a More Active City Attorney; Your guide to the L.A. city attorney's race: McKinney vs. Roy]. Her signature credential is the Meta litigation, which ended in a $17 billion settlement in August 2026 [Your guide to the L.A. city attorney's race: McKinney vs. Roy; Inside Marissa Roy's Bollywood-bumping, group-project bid to become L.A.'s city attorney]. Her main vulnerability, pressed by McKinney and former City Attorney Burt Pines, is that she has never tried a jury case [Your guide to the L.A. city attorney's race: McKinney vs. Roy; Inside Marissa Roy's Bollywood-bumping, group-project bid to become L.A.'s city attorney]. Late-October polling had her ahead 36% to 19%, with 45% undecided [Marissa Roy's lead grows over John McKinney in L.A. city attorney race, latest poll shows]. ### Record highlights - Began at the L.A. City Attorney's Office in 2017 as a Justice Catalyst fellow, leading three wage-theft suits soon after bar admission. [Marissa Roy — Justice Catalyst Fellowship; LAist voter guide: Los Angeles City Attorney (2026 general); Inside Marissa Roy's Bollywood-bumping, group-project bid to become L.A.'s city attorney] - Represented L.A. County as outside counsel in litigation against the first Trump administration (her account). [Meet Marissa Roy, candidate for Los Angeles City Attorney; LAist voter guide: Los Angeles City Attorney (2026 general)] - Helped build California's case against Meta; it settled for $17 billion in August 2026, and Bonta credits her with shaping its legal strategy. [Your guide to the L.A. city attorney's race: McKinney vs. Roy; Inside Marissa Roy's Bollywood-bumping, group-project bid to become L.A.'s city attorney] - Reports winning a half-million-dollar judgment against an abusive landlord at the state Justice Department (her account). [Meet Marissa Roy, candidate for Los Angeles City Attorney] - Finished first in the June 2026 primary with 43.1%. [Who will be Los Angeles' next city attorney?] ### Stated positions - Route nonviolent misdemeanor offenders into court-supervised diversion to cut reoffending (April and October 2026). [Meet Marissa Roy, candidate for Los Angeles City Attorney; Your guide to the L.A. city attorney's race: McKinney vs. Roy] - Revive the Neighborhood Prosecutor Program as a broader 'Neighborhood Advocates Program'. [Meet Marissa Roy, candidate for Los Angeles City Attorney; From Defender to Enforcer: Marissa Roy's Case for a More Active City Attorney] - Cut outside counsel, rely on in-house deputies, and prevent suits by working with the controller and departments on compliance. [Meet Marissa Roy, candidate for Los Angeles City Attorney; From Defender to Enforcer: Marissa Roy's Case for a More Active City Attorney; Your guide to the L.A. city attorney's race: McKinney vs. Roy] - Aggressively use the office's unfair-competition powers against wage theft, tenant harassment, fraud and pollution. [Marissa Roy for Los Angeles City Attorney (campaign site); From Defender to Enforcer: Marissa Roy's Case for a More Active City Attorney; Your guide to the L.A. city attorney's race: McKinney vs. Roy] - Lead city litigation against the Trump administration. [Meet Marissa Roy, candidate for Los Angeles City Attorney; Your guide to the L.A. city attorney's race: McKinney vs. Roy] - Stem homelessness by enforcing renter protections; she says 20,000+ harassment complaints produced fewer than 10 cases. [Your guide to the L.A. city attorney's race: McKinney vs. Roy] ### Where sources disagree - Pro-McKinney groups spent over $350,000 disputing her 'deputy city attorney' title because a nonprofit paid her; the Times reports the office authorized the title and uses it in court filings. [Inside Marissa Roy's Bollywood-bumping, group-project bid to become L.A.'s city attorney] ### Gaps - No debate or forum transcript; the LACBA-WLALA townhall and KPCC AirTalk interviews were found only as unreadable media. - LAist's questionnaire answers did not load. - None of her legal briefs or filings were collected. - Her own position on 41.18 appears only in her opponent's characterization. - No editorial endorsement from a mainstream outlet; the only editorial voice is Knock LA (pro-Roy). ### Arguments for / praise - Her civil and affirmative-litigation experience matches most of the job, and her opponent has no civil experience. — *Knock LA, Roy's allies (Los Angeles Times)* [Knock LA progressive voter guide, November 2026 general election; Inside Marissa Roy's Bollywood-bumping, group-project bid to become L.A.'s city attorney] - She is tenacious and collaborative, and was central to the Meta case. — *Rob Bonta, David Chiu* [Inside Marissa Roy's Bollywood-bumping, group-project bid to become L.A.'s city attorney] - She is backed by the county Democratic Party, organized labor, Sens. Padilla, Schiff and Sanders, Bonta, and the San Francisco and San Diego city attorneys. — *Marissa Roy campaign, Los Angeles Times* [Marissa Roy endorsements; Your guide to the L.A. city attorney's race: McKinney vs. Roy] ### Arguments against / criticism - She has never tried a jury case and has no management experience. — *John McKinney* [Your guide to the L.A. city attorney's race: McKinney vs. Roy; Inside Marissa Roy's Bollywood-bumping, group-project bid to become L.A.'s city attorney] - She lacks the 'gravitas' and stature for the office. — *Burt Pines* [Inside Marissa Roy's Bollywood-bumping, group-project bid to become L.A.'s city attorney] - She is reluctant to enforce the 41.18 encampment ban, and her policies mirror George Gascón's. — *John McKinney, pro-McKinney advertising* [LA's Undecided Voters Loom Large in race for City Attorney between Marissa Roy & John McKinney; A political bogeyman has emerged in L.A.'s election: Ousted D.A. George Gascón] - Her primary-period promises were 'insane', and she took money from a PAC tied to lawyers who sue the city. — *Hydee Feldstein Soto* [Leaked files, 'nuclear verdicts,' bruising attacks: Inside the L.A. city attorney race] ## Analysis of their own words (as of 2026-10-29) Coverage: Three samples, April to August 2026: a Patch written questionnaire (S2, 2026-04-30), a Random Lengths News profile-interview that is mostly paraphrase with three direct quotes (S1, 2026-08-06), and the campaign homepage (S3, undated). All are prepared or edited text. Missing: debate or forum transcripts, unscripted Q&A, runoff-period answers, and any brief or filing she wrote at the Justice Department or City Attorney's Office. Progressive on the issues she addresses: she favors diversion over incarceration for nonviolent misdemeanors, an office that sues corporations, landlords and polluters, and litigation against the Trump administration (S2, S3). Her legal philosophy is enforcement-minded and civil: she reads the office's unfair-competition powers broadly (S1) and puts preventing liability ahead of litigating it (S1, S2). Articulation: **strong**. In prepared text she is clear, structured and specific: she names a program to revive, breaks liability growth into two causes, and gives figures (S2). The figures carry no sources, and S1 offers little direct speech. No unscripted sample was available, so responsiveness under questioning cannot be judged. Consistency: **strong**. Prevention-first liability management, a revived neighborhood program and anti-Trump litigation recur across all three samples (S1-S3). The window is only four months. - Misdemeanor prosecution: Prioritize lowering reoffending through court-supervised diversion for nonviolent offenses. - "I want to pursue strategies that actually make our communities safer — one key goal is reducing recidivism, or the rate of reoffending." [Meet Marissa Roy, candidate for Los Angeles City Attorney] (2026-04-30) - "Data has shown that when nonviolent misdemeanors are addressed with diversion, rather than incarceration, people are dramatically less likely to reoffend." [Meet Marissa Roy, candidate for Los Angeles City Attorney] (2026-04-30) - Neighborhood presence: Revive the Neighborhood Prosecutor Program as a broader 'Neighborhood Advocates Program'. - "I plan to restore the link between neighborhoods and the City Attorney’s Office by bringing back a new version of the Neighborhood Prosecutor Program ended by the current city attorney." [Meet Marissa Roy, candidate for Los Angeles City Attorney] (2026-04-30) - Liability costs: Cut outside counsel, rely on in-house deputies, settle reasonable cases and prevent suits through compliance. - "As city attorney, I’d manage liability responsibly: slashing outsourcing to outside counsel, reinvesting in deputy city attorneys who resolve cases at a fraction of the cost, and adopting proven risk-management practices to avoid runaway verdicts." [Meet Marissa Roy, candidate for Los Angeles City Attorney] (2026-04-30) - "The best way to defend your client is to prevent the lawsuit" [From Defender to Enforcer: Marissa Roy's Case for a More Active City Attorney] (2026-08-06) - Affirmative litigation: Use the office's consumer-protection powers aggressively against exploitative businesses. - "The city attorney has the powers of any business or anything that is unlawful, unfair, deceptive" [From Defender to Enforcer: Marissa Roy's Case for a More Active City Attorney] (2026-08-06) - "I believe that includes protecting workers from wage theft, renters from illegal evictions, consumers from fraud, and our environment from polluters." [Marissa Roy for Los Angeles City Attorney (campaign site)] (undated) - Federal government: Lead city litigation against the Trump administration. - "I plan to transform this office into the most significant public interest law office in the city, leading litigation against the Trump Administration and holding abusive corporations accountable." [Meet Marissa Roy, candidate for Los Angeles City Attorney] (2026-04-30) - "And it means standing up against unconstitutional attacks from the Trump administration." [Marissa Roy for Los Angeles City Attorney (campaign site)] (undated) Limitations: Three prepared samples, one mostly paraphrased; nothing from the runoff debates and none of her legal writing. Her positions on L.A. Municipal Code 41.18 and on specific misdemeanor categories appear only in her opponent's descriptions, which are not her words. ## Timeline (newest first) - **2026-summer** — Ad tying Roy to Gascón released (Los Angeles Times) - **2026-10-28** — Published: Marissa Roy's lead grows over John McKinney in L.A. city attorney race, latest poll shows (Los Angeles Times) - **2026-10-23** — Published: Inside Marissa Roy's Bollywood-bumping, group-project bid to become L.A.'s city attorney (Los Angeles Times) - **2026-10-22** — Published: A political bogeyman has emerged in L.A.'s election: Ousted D.A. George Gascón (Los Angeles Times) - **2026-10-19** — Published: LA's Undecided Voters Loom Large in race for City Attorney between Marissa Roy & John McKinney (CityWatch LA) - **2026-10-11** — Published: Knock LA progressive voter guide, November 2026 general election (Knock LA) - **2026-10-08** — Published: Who will be Los Angeles' next city attorney? (NBC Los Angeles) - **2026-10-01** — Published: Your guide to the L.A. city attorney's race: McKinney vs. Roy (Los Angeles Times) - **2026-10** — Berkeley IGS poll released (Los Angeles Times) - **2026-09-27** — Published: Poll shows Roy holds lead in L.A. city attorney race — but most voters undecided (Los Angeles Times) - **2026-09-11** — Published: LAist voter guide: Los Angeles City Attorney (2026 general) (LAist) - **2026-09** — Berkeley IGS poll released (Los Angeles Times) - **2026-08-06** — Published: From Defender to Enforcer: Marissa Roy's Case for a More Active City Attorney (Random Lengths News) - **2026-08** — Meta case Roy worked on ended in a $17 billion settlement (Los Angeles Times) - **2026-08** — Meta case settled for $17 billion (Los Angeles Times) - **2026-06-05** — Published: L.A. city attorney becomes first incumbent ousted in primary in nearly 100 years (Los Angeles Times) - **2026-06-04** — Published: Roy and McKinney overtake incumbent Feldstein Soto in L.A. city attorney polls (Los Angeles Magazine) - **2026-06-04** — Published: Marissa Roy, John McKinney leading race for LA City Attorney (FOX 11 Los Angeles) - **2026-06-04** — Published: LA City Attorney race: Roy, McKinney take top spots while Feldstein Soto remains in third (ABC7 Los Angeles) - **2026-06-02** — Primary election (Los Angeles Magazine) - **2026-06-02** — Primary election for L.A. City Attorney (FOX 11 Los Angeles) - **2026-06-02** — Published: Incumbent upended: LA City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto wiped out in primary (LAist) - **2026-06-02** — Primary election; early results (LAist) - **2026-06-02** — Primary (Los Angeles Times) - **2026-06** — Feldstein Soto eliminated in the primary (Los Angeles Times) - **2026-06** — Primary eliminates incumbent Feldstein Soto (LAist) - **2026-06** — Primary: Roy 43.1%, McKinney 28.6% (NBC Los Angeles) - **2026-05-23** — Published: Leaked files, 'nuclear verdicts,' bruising attacks: Inside the L.A. city attorney race (Los Angeles Times) - **2026-05-05** — Published: Push to oust L.A. city attorney grows as challenger gains support of D.A., police union (Los Angeles Times) - **2026-05-05** — Roy statement responding to LAPPL and Hochman endorsements of McKinney (Los Angeles Times) - **2026-05** — Roy canvassing in Silver Lake ahead of the June primary (Los Angeles Times) - **2026-04-30** — Published: Meet Marissa Roy, candidate for Los Angeles City Attorney (Patch) - **2024** — Roy worked on Ysabel Jurado's council campaign (LAist) - **2021-05-24** — Published: Marissa Roy — Justice Catalyst Fellowship (Justice Catalyst) - **2017** — Roy began a Justice Catalyst Fellowship in the L.A. City Attorney's Office (LAist) - **2017** — Roy began fellowship at the L.A. City Attorney's Office (Justice Catalyst) - **2017** — Roy began at the City Attorney's Office (Los Angeles Times) - **1933-05-02** — Last primary defeat of an incumbent L.A. city attorney (Los Angeles Times) ## Sources ### Marissa Roy's lead grows over John McKinney in L.A. city attorney race, latest poll shows - Los Angeles Times · news · published 2026-10-28 · stance: neutral - Los Angeles Times report on a late-October Berkeley IGS poll showing Marissa Roy ahead of John McKinney 36% to 19%, with 45% undecided. Voters are split on who would better address street homelessness; Roy leads among renters and progressives, McKinney among Republicans and MAGA-identified voters. - Roy's lead grew to 17 points. - Undecideds fell from 70% to 45%. - Roy would address homelessness by keeping people housed; McKinney by inducing treatment through prosecutions. - Independent expenditure messaging links McKinney to Trump and Roy to Gascón. ### Inside Marissa Roy's Bollywood-bumping, group-project bid to become L.A.'s city attorney - Los Angeles Times · news · published 2026-10-23 · stance: neutral - LA Times profile of Roy: a 34-year-old deputy AG who helped lead the Meta litigation ($17B settlement) and wants a 'largest public interest law firm' built on affirmative litigation, versus critics, including McKinney and ex-City Attorney Burt Pines, who question her lack of trial experience and 'gravitas.' - Bonta says she was one of four original team members on the Meta complaint. - Plans include tenant and wage-theft suits, taming civil liability, child-abuse and DV protection, and suits against the Trump administration. - As a fellow she led three wage-theft suits a month after bar admission; pro-McKinney groups spent $350,000+ disputing her 'deputy city attorney' title because a nonprofit paid her. - Four former city attorneys back McKinney; current state top lawyers largely back Roy. ### A political bogeyman has emerged in L.A.'s election: Ousted D.A. George Gascón - Los Angeles Times · news · published 2026-10-22 · stance: neutral - Los Angeles Times article on opponents of progressive candidates invoking former DA George Gascón. In the city attorney race, it reports that John McKinney has repeatedly invoked Gascón to cast Marissa Roy as soft on crime, including a summer ad saying Roy would 'do the same' as Gascón. - McKinney's side ties Roy to Gascón. - Most of the article concerns the mayor's race and a rumor about Gascón as police chief. - A consultant calls the tactic a sign of desperation. ### LA's Undecided Voters Loom Large in race for City Attorney between Marissa Roy & John McKinney - CityWatch LA · interview · published 2026-10-19 · stance: neutral - CityWatch LA piece on the runoff. It describes Marissa Roy as a progressive deputy AG who led the primary with 43% and whose independent-expenditure mail labels McKinney 'MAGA's pick', then prints John McKinney's answers to questions; Roy did not respond. - Roy was sent questions but did not respond. - McKinney criticizes 'Marissa Roy's reluctance to enforce 41.18.' - Pro-Roy mail calls McKinney 'MAGA'S pick for City Attorney.' ### Knock LA progressive voter guide, November 2026 general election - Knock LA · voter guide · published 2026-10-11 · stance: oppose - Knock LA's progressive voter guide endorses Marissa Roy for city attorney. It praises her litigation experience and her plan to target polluters, slumlords, wage theft and the Trump administration, and sharply criticizes John McKinney and the incumbent. - Endorses Roy. - Describes her vision of the office as 'a leading force for progressive change.' - Says only Roy has a clear plan to reduce liabilities. ### Who will be Los Angeles' next city attorney? - NBC Los Angeles · news · published 2026-10-08 · stance: neutral - Brief explainer: two Democrats, Roy (43.1% in the primary) stressing tenant, worker and consumer protection, McKinney (28.6%) stressing crime reduction. - Final primary shares: Roy 43.1%, McKinney 28.6%. - Roy previously handled workers' rights and wage theft cases in the City Attorney's Office. - McKinney prosecuted the Nipsey Hussle murder. - Roy backed by Planned Parenthood, the county Democratic Party and DSA-LA; McKinney by Hochman, Jackie Lacey and Councilmembers Park, Lee, McOsker and Rodriguez. ### Your guide to the L.A. city attorney's race: McKinney vs. Roy - Los Angeles Times · voter guide · published 2026-10-01 · stance: neutral - Side-by-side guide: Roy, 34, a deputy AG who helped build California's Meta case, pitches herself as the 'people's lawyer' for tenants and wage workers, favoring diversion, in-house litigation, liability prevention and suits against the Trump administration. - Roy favors diversion for nonviolent misdemeanor offenders and integrating city and county programs. - Roy would bring civil litigation in-house, cut outside counsel and focus on preventing liability with the controller. - Roy has made litigation against the Trump administration a cornerstone of her campaign. - Roy ties tenant-harassment enforcement to homelessness prevention. - McKinney criticizes Roy for never having tried a jury case; Roy's backers note McKinney has no civil litigation experience. - Roy's endorsers include the county Democratic Party, DSA-LA, Bonta and Sanders. - Reference: LA Times coverage of the Nipsey Hussle murder sentencing - Reference: Leaked files, 'nuclear verdicts,' bruising attacks: Inside the L.A. city attorney race - Reference: As L.A. faces budget crisis, legal payouts skyrocket ### Poll shows Roy holds lead in L.A. city attorney race — but most voters undecided - Los Angeles Times · news · published 2026-09-27 · stance: neutral - Los Angeles Times report on a Berkeley IGS poll showing Marissa Roy 10 points ahead of John McKinney with about 70% of likely voters undecided. It summarizes each candidate's pitch: McKinney on reducing disorder and moving unhoused people off the streets; Roy on curbing liability partly via infrastructure fixes and public-interest litigation like the Meta case. - Roy leads by 10 points; about 70% undecided. - McKinney's support is strongest among Republicans and MAGA-identified voters; Roy's among Democrats and progressives. - Voters rank homelessness and public safety as top priorities. ### LAist voter guide: Los Angeles City Attorney (2026 general) - LAist · voter guide · published 2026-09-11 · stance: neutral - Explains the office and profiles both candidates; Roy is a consumer-protection deputy AG, backed by progressives like Sanders, who vows to sue the Trump administration and prioritize workers and renters. - Explains the office's civil, advisory and misdemeanor-prosecution roles. - Roy worked in the City Attorney's Office through a 2017 Justice Catalyst Fellowship and later as outside counsel for L.A. County. - Roy grew up in Monrovia, was a Public Rights Project staff attorney and worked on Ysabel Jurado's 2024 campaign. - In the June primary Roy drew among the most votes of any city candidate, second only to Controller Kenneth Mejia. - McKinney is presented as prioritizing public safety with support from prosecutors and law enforcement. - Reference: Marissa Roy campaign website - Reference: Patch Q&A with Marissa Roy - Reference: Random Lengths News profile of Roy - Reference: L.A. Ethics Commission campaign finance portal ### From Defender to Enforcer: Marissa Roy's Case for a More Active City Attorney - Random Lengths News · interview · published 2026-08-06 · stance: neutral - Random Lengths News profile-interview, opening with a harsh critique of the incumbent, then laying out Roy's plan for an 'activist' office: aggressive consumer-protection suits, defending local authority against federal overreach, neighborhood outreach, and preventing police-misconduct suits. - Roy says the office has unfair-competition powers like the AG's and has underused them. - Would restore and expand neighborhood prosecutors with investigators and outreach staff. - Would work with the Police Commission and LAPD to spot misconduct patterns and sue to compel compliance if needed. - Frames liability costs as a management problem: outside firms and avoidable judgments. - Reference: Video interview with Roy ### L.A. city attorney becomes first incumbent ousted in primary in nearly 100 years - Los Angeles Times · news · published 2026-06-05 · stance: neutral - Los Angeles Times analysis of incumbent Hydee Feldstein Soto's primary loss, the first for an L.A. city attorney since 1933. It credits Marissa Roy's first-place finish to unions, the democratic socialist bloc, door-knocking and targeted social media. - Roy sent 180 communications, mostly Instagram and Facebook ads. - Her best-performing ad featured Feldstein Soto on not prosecuting the Trump administration. - Analysts describe Roy as presenting herself as the 'people's lawyer.' ### Roy and McKinney overtake incumbent Feldstein Soto in L.A. city attorney polls - Los Angeles Magazine · news · published 2026-06-04 · stance: neutral - Los Angeles Magazine report on early primary returns showing Marissa Roy leading the city attorney race with 37.93%, ahead of John McKinney and the incumbent. It notes Roy's endorsements and her focus on workers, renters and fighting the Trump administration's immigration agenda. - Roy had 174,250 votes (37.93%) in the count as of Thursday morning. - Endorsed by Sanders, Bonta and Mejia. - The incumbent faced criticism over outside counsel costs and liability payouts. ### Marissa Roy, John McKinney leading race for LA City Attorney - FOX 11 Los Angeles · news · published 2026-06-04 · stance: neutral - Wire report on the early primary count: Roy led the early count with 37.79%; the incumbent ran third amid criticism over liability payouts and a police-file leak. - Early returns: Roy 37.79%, McKinney 32.10%, Feldstein Soto 20.54%, Ashouri 9.57%. - The LAPD officers' union rescinded its endorsement of Feldstein Soto after a data breach and endorsed McKinney. - McKinney's stated focus: repeat offenders, retail theft, street racing, narcotics, misdemeanor gun crimes. - Roy's stated focus: fighting the federal immigration crackdown, workers' rights and renters. - City liability payouts were $294 million last fiscal year. ### LA City Attorney race: Roy, McKinney take top spots while Feldstein Soto remains in third - ABC7 Los Angeles · news · published 2026-06-04 · stance: neutral - Wire report on the early primary count: Roy led the early count with 37.79%; the incumbent ran third amid criticism over liability payouts and a police-file leak. - Early returns: Roy 37.79%, McKinney 32.10%, Feldstein Soto 20.54%, Ashouri 9.57%. - The LAPD officers' union rescinded its endorsement of Feldstein Soto after a data breach and endorsed McKinney. - McKinney's stated focus: repeat offenders, retail theft, street racing, narcotics, misdemeanor gun crimes. - Roy's stated focus: fighting the federal immigration crackdown, workers' rights and renters. - City liability payouts were $294 million last fiscal year. ### Incumbent upended: LA City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto wiped out in primary - LAist · news · published 2026-06-02 · stance: neutral - LAist primary-night coverage reporting that incumbent Hydee Feldstein Soto trailed in third, with Marissa Roy leading at about 37%. It carries Roy's statement that voters want 'a city attorney who fights for working people, not special interests.' - Roy led early results at 37%. - Roy's endorsements include labor unions, DSA-LA, Sanders and Bonta. - Feldstein Soto's office said she is proud of her record. ### Leaked files, 'nuclear verdicts,' bruising attacks: Inside the L.A. city attorney race - Los Angeles Times · news · published 2026-05-23 · stance: neutral - Los Angeles Times pre-primary feature on the three-way race. It describes Marissa Roy as a democratic socialist deputy attorney general who would run the office as a 'public interest law firm' fighting wage theft and renter harassment, with a care-first approach to homelessness and opposition to the Trump administration. - Roy pitches the office as both the city's lawyer and 'the lawyer for the people.' - Roy said she is committed to reducing payouts that have 'spiraled out of control.' - Feldstein Soto dismissed Roy's promises as 'insane' and accused her of taking money from a PAC tied to lawyers who sue the city. - City payouts rose from $64 million in the mid-2010s to $294 million. ### Push to oust L.A. city attorney grows as challenger gains support of D.A., police union - Los Angeles Times · news · published 2026-05-05 · stance: neutral - Los Angeles Times report on the DA and LAPD union endorsing John McKinney. It includes Marissa Roy's response that the union endorsing 'the most conservative candidate' is understandable given LAPD misconduct costs, and notes her backing from the county Democratic Party, DSA and Rob Bonta. - Roy responded to the McKinney endorsements by citing LAPD misconduct lawsuit costs. - Roy wants the office to be 'the largest public interest law firm in the city.' - The article mostly concerns McKinney and the incumbent. ### Meet Marissa Roy, candidate for Los Angeles City Attorney - Patch · position statement · published 2026-04-30 · stance: neutral - Roy's own Patch questionnaire answers: diversion over incarceration for nonviolent misdemeanors, a revived neighborhood-prosecutor model, and cutting liability by slashing outside counsel and settling cases that she says were pushed into 'nuclear verdicts.' - Says most misdemeanors are nonviolent and victimless and that diversion lowers reoffending. - Would create a 'Neighborhood Advocates Program' rebuilding the ended Neighborhood Prosecutor Program. - Says the incumbent exceeded the liability budget by $100M, $200M and nearly $250M in successive years and raised outside-counsel use over 500%. - Pledges to make the office 'the most significant public interest law office in the city,' leading litigation against the Trump administration. - Argues her civil-litigation experience fits the office better than her opponents' felony or advocacy backgrounds. ### Marissa Roy — Justice Catalyst Fellowship - Justice Catalyst · other · published 2021-05-24 · stance: neutral - Justice Catalyst fellowship bio: after Yale Law, Roy joined the L.A. City Attorney's Office (2017-2018) as a fellow to build an impact-litigation partnership with UCLA. - Grew up in Los Angeles; volunteered 200+ hours at USC. - Worked with San Francisco on local-government litigation while at Yale. ### Marissa Roy for Los Angeles City Attorney (campaign site) - Marissa Roy campaign · position statement · published undated · stance: support - Roy's campaign homepage: a short statement casting the office as fighting 'for the people, not the powerful' on wage theft, illegal evictions, consumer fraud, polluters, public safety and the Trump administration. - Says she will 'restore integrity to the Office.' - Bills herself as the only candidate endorsed by Planned Parenthood, the Democratic Party and Bernie Sanders. ### Marissa Roy endorsements - Marissa Roy campaign · endorsement · published undated · stance: support - Roy's campaign endorsement list: the L.A. County Democratic Party, Working Families Party, DSA-LA, Planned Parenthood, the County Federation of Labor and many unions, plus Sens. Padilla, Schiff and Sanders, AG Bonta, four county supervisors and several councilmembers. - Labor support includes SEIU locals, UTLA, Teamsters JC 42, UNITE HERE 11 and the LA/OC Building Trades. - Elected backers include Supervisors Solis, Mitchell, Hahn and Horvath and Councilmembers Hernandez, Harris-Dawson and Jurado. ### City elections in Los Angeles, California (2026) - Ballotpedia · other · published undated · stance: neutral - ### 2026 Los Angeles City Attorney election - Wikipedia · other · published undated · stance: neutral - ## Suggested use Ask me neutral questions about this subject using the material above. Distinguish what the sources say from your own background knowledge, cite the source titles you rely on, and say when information may be out of date given the dates shown.