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Fisher Broyles October 31, 2023 Page 4 of 4 Such information is not publicly available, and tenants have a reasonable expectation of privacy in that information. Requiring landlords to seek and report such personal information about their tenants is unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment. Cty. ofL.A., 56 Cal. 4th at 927. B. The Additional Information Required by the Administrator Violates the Municipal Code, Section 8-316(a) As noted above, the Municipal Code allows the Administrator to "adopt policies and procedures that require additional information to be collected and recorded in Registration Forms in furtherance of the objectives of this Article." Municipal Code § 8-3160(a). The stated "objective" of the rent registry is to allow the City to monitor rent increases. That can be done without compelling landlords to collect and report the private details about their tenantsi.e., their names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and "preferred" language. The Administrator has promulgated no formal policy or procedure of which the Coalition is aware that justifies the need for such private information. Therefore, the Administrator's demand for tenant information violates the plain terms of section 8-1360(a). III. Conclusion The City's "rent registry" requirements, as codified in the code and implemented by the Administrator, are subject to legal challenge. They violate landlords' and tenants' reasonable expectation of privacy —in violation of the Fourth Amendment —and even violate the plain terms of the code itself. The Coalition requests that the City Council amend its code to strike section 8- 1360(g)—so that landlords are not required to produce nonpublic documents to the City —and to instruct the Administrator to (1) cease and desist from compelling landlords to collect and report personal and highly sensitive information about their tenants, and (2) purge all such information received to date. Very truly yours, Paul J. Beard 11 P 1 1 /`,I,! [ A I /\U!_,11114 1 I I AIR,1 t i I I l' t I II(,,AG,O II It;lly, N,%\ II D U I VL_L AI',L_a I C <OL.L. IMUI,J ', I L iAILL_A I INVL R, I L.i1., I RULI I I I(. UL,,l OI` II I I_UN L. UI'4 L () S ,V1 At�kL�i:P..1. J ( I'AIAMI 0'11.1""", 1 I`JILW 'Y 4 RU,,,, I PAL.) AL_ I U PIIIIJyL)1:_IJ`1IIV" I PI,`1NC,I_I(:t1"L tI I I./\KI (:IIY I `LAI IL.Ii j VVf'0;31III1(x10\� D,(;';.