The scandal caused by the leak last fall of Los Angeles City Councilmembers using racist language as they discussed redistricting has prompted six local scholars — including California State University, Northridge political science professor Boris Ricks — to join forces to re-imagine how the city should be governed.

The L.A. Governance Reform Project (LAGRP) — which includes researchers from CSUN, UCLA, USC, Cal State Los Angeles, Pomona College and Loyola Marymount University — has taken on the task of developing proposals that truly reflect the interests of the city’s nearly 4 million residents, provide transparency and hold city leaders accountable…

For more of the media release: https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/csun-leaders/csun-political-science-professor-part-of-effort-to-re-imagine-city-governance/