Wednesday, November 12, 2025: 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. 

---CLASS WILL BE HELD VIA ZOOM WEBINAR---

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Join a live question and answer session about Section 8 voucher holders’ and Section 8 owners’ rights and responsibilities. An experienced spokesperson for the City of Los Angeles’s Section 8 rental assistance program will be available to answer questions about finding housing with a Section 8 voucher, communicating with the Housing Authority and reporting issues. Subjects covered will include program policy (occupancy standards, recertification, income reporting); tenant rights under Section 8; inspections and meeting habitability standards and communicating with landlords and the Housing Authority about problems. Whether you are a Section 8 voucher holder or Section 8 owner, attend and get the vital information you need. Although you can listen to the class from various kinds of devices, you will need video to view the speaker(s) and any presentation materials, and will need to connect through Zoom to be able to participate in the written Q&A or chat features. 

Presented by: Jose Gutierrez, Section 8 Ombudsperson, Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles

Registration fee: FREE

November 12th Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84394877363

Class recorded October 23, 2025 

According to the Civics Center, only 30% of Americans who turn 18 register to vote. Stepping Forward LA, the Civics Center and LA Law Library have joined forces for this session on the importance of the youth’s vote with particular emphasis on foster youth. 

Presented by: Chelsea-Leigh-Flucus, Director of Public & Legal Education, LA Law Library (LA Law Library - Home Page), Pat Colon, Director of Programs, Stepping Forward LA (Staff | Stepping Forward LA), Molly Ford, Director of Education & Organizing, Civics Center (Team, Advisors and Volunteers - The Civics Center)

LA Law Library does not provide legal advice: LA Law Library provides legal resources and assistance with legal research as an educational service. The Law Library is pleased to offer our patrons the opportunity to obtain assistance from third party legal service providers at this and other events within the Library. However, the Library does not control and is not responsible for the content or scope of any assistance given by those providers

Saturday, November 15, 2025: 10:00 a.m.

In partnership with the LA Law Library, Community Legal Aid Socal is offering a free expungement clinic. The clinic is open to qualifying residents of Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernadino and select areas within Orange County. The information session and attorney consultations are FREE. 

The first part of the program will be an information session. It will cover what expungement is in California, how participants are eligible for the program and what documents are required from them to participate in later sessions. Following the information session, attorneys will be onsite to answer questions, open files, complete intake and start your expungement case that day.

Attorneys will provide consultations regarding Dismissals/Expungements, Arrest Record Sealings, Reductions, Juvenile Record Sealings and Certificates of Rehabilitation/Pardons. 

If participants have questions, they are encouraged to call 714-571-5200. 

Class recorded September 17, 2024

Are city ordinances unconstitutional that prohibit people from camping on public sidewalks and parkland, when those people have nowhere else to go? Can the Eighth Amendment, banning cruel and unusual punishment, be applied to contravene fines, arrests, and other enforcements that criminalize involuntary homelessness? This event will review decisions rendered by America’s courts in considering these complex questions, and reflect on the promises and limitations of the Constitution in addressing policy issues related to poverty and housing insecurity. 

Presented by: Shayla Myers, Senior Attorney at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles' Unhoused People's Justice Project

Registration fee: FREE

LA Law Library does not provide legal advice:
LA Law Library does not provide legal advice. LA Law Library provides legal resources and assistance with legal research as an educational service. The information presented in this program is not legal advice and is provided solely as an educational service to our patrons. For legal advice, you should consult an attorney.