Los Angeles, California Sunday, September 6, 2026 Vol. 1 · Day 93

LA CIVICS.

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311 requests filed today
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Westwood-area requests this week
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construction value permitted, last 30 days on record
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SoCal earthquakes, latest 24h of data (M2.7 max)

Latest Daily Brief

311 requests up 31% vs a typical Friday — 7,899 filed across LA

Angelenos filed 7,899 MyLA311 service requests yesterday, up 31% against a typical Friday (median of the last 8 Fridays: 6,007). We compare like weekdays with like — a raw week-over-week number would mostly measure the weekend dip, not the news. One caveat: 1,400 of those (18%) arrived through the city's “(none)” channel — a channel the city files through itself, not residents asking for help — at 467× that channel's typical day, so the headline number is partly a paperwork batch, not resident demand.

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What the city asked for today

Live tallies of today's MyLA311 service requests, by type and ZIP code, refreshed from the city's open data. Each links into its own live page; the dashboard has the full picture, and the findings hold what this data has taught us so far.