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Hugo Soto-Martinez

Councilmember, District 13, Los Angeles City Council

Raised ICE and immigration enforcement at eight meetings. Named Echo Park most often: two times.

27 of 85transcribed meetings with their voice identified
61 of 72present at opening roll calls, from the clerk

Chairs the Economic Development and Jobs Committee; sits on 4 more committees

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Two clips, newest first

  • Hugo Soto-Martinez · Council member · Ad Hoc Committee on the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games · Jun 30, 2026 · 1:45:12

    “I mean, our chief of police— I didn’t vote for the current chief of police because when he was the sheriff of LA County, he was out there talking to Jeff Sessions about, you know, how our sanctuary city laws were not well.”

  • Hugo Soto-Martinez · Council member · City Council · Feb 3, 2026 · 2:05:01

    “I show up there and it was the community, the community that was talking to people, to their family members. It was the community going around telling street vendors that ICE was in the area.”

Issues Soto-Martinez raised, by number of meetings

We count who raised an issue, not which side they took.

Where Soto-Martinez sits

District 13 on the current City Council map

Click a district to open its member’s page.

District 1: Eunisses HernandezDistrict 2: Adrin NazarianDistrict 3: Bob BlumenfieldDistrict 4: Nithya RamanDistrict 5: Katy Young YaroslavskyDistrict 6: Imelda PadillaDistrict 7: Monica RodriguezDistrict 8: Marqueece Harris-DawsonDistrict 9: Curren D. Price Jr.District 10: Heather HuttDistrict 11: Traci ParkDistrict 12: John LeeDistrict 13: Hugo Soto-MartinezDistrict 14: Ysabel J. JuradoDistrict 15: Tim McOskerCity HallEunisses Hernandez · District 1Adrin Nazarian · District 2Bob Blumenfield · District 3Nithya Raman · District 4Katy Young Yaroslavsky · District 5Imelda Padilla · District 6Monica Rodriguez · District 7Marqueece Harris-Dawson · District 8Curren D. Price Jr. · District 9Heather Hutt · District 10Traci Park · District 11John Lee · District 12Hugo Soto-Martinez · District 13Ysabel J. Jurado · District 14Tim McOsker · District 15
Hugo Soto-Martinez sits for District 13. Click a district to open its member’s page.District lines: LA County GIS, LA City Council Districts (2021), Political_Boundaries/MapServer/33 (the city's adopted 2021 map), fetched 2026-10-30.
Every roll call, and Soto-Martinez’s other bodies

Present at 61 of 72 opening roll calls at the City Council

From the clerk’s own record. We don’t compare members on it.

PresentAbsent at openingOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Absent at opening roll call 11 · voted later in 6 of those. Oct 24, 2025 to Sep 30, 2026. The clerk’s record covers 72 of the 101 meetings we hold, through Sep 30, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →
What they talk about

Commendations, ceremonies and memorials took 26% of Soto-Martinez’s speech with a checked topic

By the topic two AI readers agree on for each stretch of their talk, at the City Council and its committees. 127 of 167 minutes of their speech have a checked topic. How much they talk about it, not which side they take.

Commendations, ceremonies and memorials26%
Housing and tenants8.9%
Taxes and fees5.6%
Immigration0.8%
Streets, traffic and parking0.6%
Neighborhoods Soto-Martinez named

7 places Soto-Martinez named in meetings

Lines where Soto-Martinez named the place, read by two AI readers that both agree it means that place. Each dot plays the newest one; brighter means named more often.

Los Angeles
  • Echo Park 2 times
  • Hollywood 2 times
  • Silver Lake 2 times
  • South Los Angeles 2 times
  • East Hollywood 1 time
  • MacArthur Park 1 time
  • San Pedro 1 time

Places are drawn at the centre of their own boundary in the city’s Neighborhood Councils (Certified) file (City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Engineering (LA GeoHub)). A dot says the place was named, not where Soto-Martinez was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Soto-Martinez’s voice

46, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Soto-Martinez’s first remark.

  1. Sep 22, 2026City Council1.1 min1:50:43
  2. Sep 8, 2026City Council0.1 min2:32:19
  3. Sep 4, 2026City Council10.1 min1:08:36
  4. Aug 4, 2026City Council0.6 min53:31
  5. Jun 30, 2026City Council1.0 min4:28:00
  6. Jun 30, 2026Ad Hoc Committee on the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games4.5 min1:04:37
  7. Jun 26, 2026City Council3.7 min2:02:45
  8. Jun 15, 2026Rules, Elections and Intergovernmental Relations Committee3.6 min1:49:41
  9. Jun 5, 2026City Council5.0 min58:49
  10. May 28, 2026Rules, Elections and Intergovernmental Relations Committee14.0 min2:08:33
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  1. May 21, 2026City Council3.3 min1:14:06
  2. May 18, 2026Ad Hoc Committee on the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games2.0 min2:41:45
  3. May 15, 2026City Council1.3 min1:32:13
  4. May 14, 2026Rules, Elections and Intergovernmental Relations Committee4.9 min1:50:32
  5. May 5, 2026Rules, Elections and Intergovernmental Relations Committee3.1 min1:23:46
  6. Apr 29, 2026City Council3.3 min1:27:01
  7. Apr 21, 2026Economic Development and Jobs Committee4.9 min47:37
  8. Apr 14, 2026Ad Hoc Committee on the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games2.8 min1:51:55
  9. Mar 13, 2026City Council4.3 min2:14:50
  10. Mar 11, 2026City Council0.1 min1:19:46
  11. Mar 6, 2026City Council3.3 min1:38:03
  12. Mar 6, 2026Personnel and Hiring Committee6.9 min39:43
  13. Mar 4, 2026Rules, Elections and Intergovernmental Relations Committee4.2 min0:28
  14. Feb 27, 2026Personnel and Hiring Committee7.0 min37:09
  15. Feb 24, 2026City Council0.9 min2:34:50
  16. Feb 11, 2026City Council0.1 min47:52
  17. Feb 11, 2026Public Safety Committee2.7 min8:49
  18. Feb 3, 2026City Council2.6 min2:05:00
  19. Feb 3, 2026Economic Development and Jobs Committee2.6 min52:35
  20. Jan 27, 2026City Council4.8 min2:58:46
  21. Jan 21, 2026City Council10.6 min1:56:11
  22. Jan 14, 2026City Council3.0 min1:24:11
  23. Dec 12, 2025Personnel and Hiring Committee0.9 min46:39
  24. Dec 9, 2025City Council1.8 min23:48
  25. Dec 5, 2025Rules, Elections and Intergovernmental Relations Committee2.1 min30:38
  26. Dec 3, 2025City Council0.3 min9:47
  27. Dec 2, 2025City Council10.3 min12:53
  28. Dec 2, 2025Economic Development and Jobs Committee0.7 min1:55:37
  29. Nov 12, 2025City Council11.3 min13:55
  30. Nov 12, 2025Public Safety Committee2.6 min44:48
  31. Nov 7, 2025City Council4.2 min2:20:51
  32. Oct 29, 2025City Council1.4 min2:47
  33. Oct 29, 2025Ad Hoc Committee on the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games3.8 min38:08
  34. Oct 28, 2025City Council0.1 min46:39
  35. Oct 24, 2025City Council4.0 min1:07:41
  36. Oct 24, 2025Personnel and Hiring Committee2.1 min29:59
How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 410 council lines drawn, 352 right, 0 wrong, 1 unclear, 57 couldn’t be judged

We identified Soto-Martinez’s voice at 46 meetings across six bodies. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Soto-Martinez was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Hugo Soto-Martinez’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Soto-Martinez said. For councils and their committees, of 410 lines drawn, 352 were right, 0 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 57. We have since removed the voices behind 110 of those lines (0 wrong, 1 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 300 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 268: all 268 right (90% lower bound 0.99). They couldn’t judge the other 32. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Soto-Martinez or of Los Angeles alone.