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California voters enacted Proposition 47 in November of 2014, reducing the classification of various property and drug offenses that were previously prosecuted as felony offenses to misdemeanor offenses.
The Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office prosecutes misdemeanor offenses in the City of Los Angeles, and as we anticipated, experienced a significant increase in the number of drug offenses prosecuted by our office, increasing 224% following the passage of Prop 47.