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Susana Barrios
From:Adrian Stephen <adrian@tuanaheim.org>
Sent:Tuesday, September 22, 2026 6:24 PM
To:Public Comment
Subject:\[EXTERNAL\] Tuesday, September 22, 2026 5:00 P.M. City Council Meeting, Item 17
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Re: 17. Receive an update regarding the City Attorney's Office's implementation of a Tenant Protection
Act information intake program for Anaheim renters \[informational item only\].
My name is Adrian and I'm a volunteer with Tenant's United Anaheim (TUA).
Thank you to City Staff for bringing this informational item forward, and to Councilmember Rubalcava for
bringing the issue up in February 2026. We sincerely hope that other councilmembers will also begin to
recognize issues that tenants face, as renters comprise 55% of Anaheim residents.
I understand that there are budgetary and staff limitations to this program, as no additional resources are
being allocated to the program and only existing Staff are being utilized, which means that full
enforcement of the Tenant Protection Act if 2019 (TPA) at the city level is not yet possible.
That being said, there are some considerations that we'd like bring forward.
The first is around protection and privacy of data collected by the program. Unfortunately there are other
City Departments that continuously fail to comply with existing state laws regarding the warrantless
sharing of sensitive data with other groups and agencies.
Second, and somewhat contradictory, we hope that comprehensive aggregate and/or anonymized data
on reports of violations collected by the program will be made publically available so that groups like TUA
and similar nonprofits and community organizations can better focus their work here in Anaheim.
Finally, why stop the TPA? There are a variety of additional state laws, codes, and statues that cover
areas of tenants' rights and habitability. It would be great to use this program as a way to monitor not just
violations of the TPA but additionally, but not limited to, health code violations.
Thank you!
Tenants United Anaheim (TUA) is a volunteer run, community based, not for profit organization led by a
union of residential tenants. The mission of TUA is to build grassroots power and solidarity between
diverse working-class neighborhoods. Through organizing, direct action, coalition building, and civic
engagement, our union will strive to keep people in their homes and to achieve dignity and security for all
tenants regardless of their immigration status. We are dedicated to making improvements in the living
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conditions of our members and winning safe, secure, and affordable housing for all. Learn more at
tuAnaheim.org, or follow TUA on social media @tuAnaheim.
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