CheckbookBudget line

What has the City spent on Court Monitor?

$6.8M across 101 payments, August 19, 2019 to August 14, 2026 — 8 purchase orders and 2 vendors, run by Housing.

Checkbook LA · Through Sep 9, 2026

As published: COURT MONITOR

Spans more than one contract

This budget line has run for 8 fiscal years across 8 separate purchase orders. A single payment in the register shows none of that — the commitment outlives any one order, and the orders are how it gets renewed.

$6.8MTotal spent
8Purchase orders
2Vendors
54%Largest vendor's share

Spending by fiscal year

FY2019-20
$463K
FY2020-21
$1.2M
FY2021-22
$1.3M
FY2022-23
$932K
FY2023-24
$971K
FY2024-25
$641K
FY2025-26
$1.1M
FY2026-27 *
$156K

* FY2026-27 is still in progress — not a full year. Same point of FY2025-26 (payments dated through Sep 9, 2025): $265K.

Who was paid

Fox & Robertson PC$3.7M

62 payments

Bill L. Lee$3.2M

39 payments

Under which orders

GAEAE43AE21000015M$1.4M

17 payments · September 22, 2020 to July 28, 2022

GAEAE43AE22000008M$1.2M

13 payments · August 26, 2021 to July 28, 2022

GAEAE43AE26000003M$1.1M

12 payments · August 8, 2025 to July 7, 2026

GAEAE43AE23000007M$988K

17 payments · September 13, 2022 to December 20, 2023

GAEAE43AE25000002M$754K

17 payments · July 31, 2024 to November 6, 2025

GAEAE43AE24000006M$722K

15 payments · September 27, 2023 to June 17, 2024

GAEAE43AE20000016M$419K

7 payments · August 19, 2019 to September 16, 2020

GAEAE43AE27000001M$72K

1 payment · August 14, 2026 to August 14, 2026

Sources

LA Controller, Checkbook LA (pggv-e4fn), totalled nightly. Grouped by account_name, the budget line a payment is booked against — populated on every row, and the most useful field for understanding what a payment actually bought. Back to the checkbook.