Karen Bass Promise Tracker — Sourced Actions, No Kept/Broken Grades
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An office record is a useful anchor because people change while the institution continues. A current roster identifies a holder at a stated time; an election record identifies candidates for a particular contest. A vacant seat is still an office. Comparing these records helps avoid the common mistake of treating a candidate biography as proof that the person currently has governmental authority.
Names are not unique identifiers. A person can run more than once, seek different offices or appear with different punctuation in separate sources. Electionpedia retains the source identifiers and election context that allow a reader to check a match. A campaign committee is also a separate record: its receipts and spending should not be read as the candidate’s personal wealth.
Read the full people & public office guide →Electionpedia connects a precise campaign commitment to the dated actions and official measures that followed. We report what happened—not whether a politician “kept” or “broke” a promise.
Election.org records a precise commitment, dated public actions, and the narrowest status supported by those actions. It does not assign kept, broken, truthfulness, effort, or motive labels.
Officeholder-reported performance numbers remain labeled as such. A reported threshold is not presented as an independent audit, unique-person count, causal finding, or outcome evaluation.
This is a deliberately narrow production seed. Every status opens to the commitment source, action source, retrieval date, and page fingerprint.
The official city record says the declaration was signed as the mayor's first act in office.
The mayor's 100-day report records creation of the office and transfer of the GRYD program into it.
The Mayor's Office reported 21,694 temporary-housing entries using intergovernmental data. Election.org has not independently audited or deduplicated that measure.
The LAPD's current chief page reports 8,621 sworn officers, 1,079 below the documented target. This describes the count, not why it changed.
This seed release validates the product model with four traceable 2022 Los Angeles mayoral commitments. Absence from the tracker does not mean no other promise was made.
Last verified Oct 18, 2026 · source pages are retrieved and fingerprinted by the public refresh script · inspect the same records through the public API.
