Los Angeles City Council Settles Battle Between Controller, Homeless Nonprofit Urban Alchemy

LOS ANGELES—The city of Los Angeles has resolved a legal battle between the City Controller’s Office and a nonprofit homeless service provider, after questions were raised about the controller’s power to subpoena non-financial information from the organization. On Wednesday, the City Council OK’d plans to settle the dispute with Urban Alchemy, which challenged the legality of a controller’s office subpoena seeking non-financial information. Urban Alchemy, in a move the nonprofit called a “gesture of good-faith collaboration,” agreed to provide the subpoenaed documents to the City Attorney’s Office Wednesday night. Kirkpatrick Tyler, chief of community and government affairs at Urban Alchemy, told City News Service that following Wednesday’s actions, the nonprofit would also be dropping the lawsuit it filed against the city over the matter....