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Nithya Raman

Councilmember, District 4, Los Angeles City Council

Raised homelessness and LAHSA at six meetings. Named Van Nuys most often: three times.

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

Also sits on 1 committee

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Four clips, newest first

Homelessness and LAHSA“If I could just, um, I, I think what you’re saying, Councilmember Park, is absolutely right. And I think the county does have significant responsibilities for providing support to our highest acuity residents in our shelters and across our— and on our streets, which they’re not providing.”Nithya RamanCouncil member · City Council · Mar 13, 2026 · 4:32:22Play at 4:32:22
2028 Olympics“If there was a need for like a concrete road to be built related to that event, LA28 and the city could put it in as a temporary intervention without any authorization or stop from the council.”Nithya RamanMember · Planning and Land Use Management Committee · Jan 13, 2026 · 1:24:18Play at 1:24:18
Homelessness and LAHSA“This is going to be a new tiny homes shelter site that’s focused on women with specific needs, that is going to be in a space in Hollywood that really was not available for any other kind of use.”Nithya RamanCouncil member · City Council · Dec 9, 2025 · 1:47:29Play at 1:47:29
ICE and immigration enforcement“I just wanted to rise and thank Councilmember Soto Martinez for bringing forward this motion. In these chambers, I think we’ve repeatedly documented the violence of federal ICE officers, of federal law enforcement that have really terrorized communities in Los Angeles.”Nithya RamanCouncil member · City Council · Jan 9, 2026 · 2:53:15Play at 2:53:15

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

Issues Raman raised, by number of meetings

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

Where Raman sits

District 4 on the current City Council map

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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
Nithya Raman sits for District 4. 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 Raman’s other bodies

Present at 54 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 18 · voted later in 9 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 →
  • City Council: talk time not compared. On a random sample of meeting time, between 31% and 78% of members' speech here carries a name; we rank when the low end reaches 60%.
  • Planning and Land Use Management Committee: talk time not compared. Fewer than four members can be compared fairly.
Neighborhoods Raman named

6 places Raman named in meetings

Lines where Raman 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
  • Van Nuys 3 times
  • Studio City 2 times, the most of any official
  • Encino 1 time
  • Hollywood 1 time
  • Los Feliz 1 time
  • Reseda 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 Raman was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Raman’s voice

61, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Raman’s first remark.

  1. Oct 2, 2026City Council1.3 min1:37:39
  2. Sep 22, 2026Planning and Land Use Management Committee2.5 min13:48
  3. Sep 4, 2026City Council5.3 min1:10:37
  4. Aug 26, 2026City Council0.1 min45:39
  5. Aug 25, 2026Planning and Land Use Management Committee0.9 min41:07
  6. Aug 21, 2026City Council0.2 min48:10
  7. Aug 19, 2026City Council0.1 min46:17
  8. Aug 12, 2026City Council7.2 min3:45:56
  9. Aug 4, 2026City Council0.9 min52:30
  10. Jul 1, 2026City Council2.4 min3:33:37
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  1. Jun 26, 2026City Council5.0 min47:32
  2. Jun 24, 2026City Council2.6 min2:30:22
  3. Jun 17, 2026City Council0.3 min5:23:44
  4. Jun 16, 2026City Council0.1 min41:45
  5. Jun 9, 2026City Council3.2 min2:34:32
  6. Jun 9, 2026Planning and Land Use Management Committee0.2 min1:54:36
  7. Jun 5, 2026City Council2.7 min2:04:06
  8. May 26, 2026City Council0.7 min53:26
  9. May 21, 2026City Council1.2 min2:44:29
  10. May 19, 2026City Council1.5 min2:50:49
  11. May 15, 2026City Council4.2 min2:10:16
  12. May 13, 2026City Council0.1 min5:07:17
  13. May 12, 2026Planning and Land Use Management Committee8.7 min1:24:56
  14. May 5, 2026City Council3.4 min2:06:58
  15. May 1, 2026City Council3.2 min56:55
  16. Apr 29, 2026City Council0.2 min43:11
  17. Apr 14, 2026Planning and Land Use Management Committee3.3 min39:37
  18. Mar 27, 2026City Council0.6 min3:13:52
  19. Mar 25, 2026City Council1.1 min2:26:18
  20. Mar 24, 2026City Council10.2 min1:14:09
  21. Mar 24, 2026Planning and Land Use Management Committee1.4 min48:32
  22. Mar 13, 2026City Council3.7 min1:54:16
  23. Mar 11, 2026City Council1.6 min43:18
  24. Mar 10, 2026City Council0.2 min42:42
  25. Mar 10, 2026Planning and Land Use Management Committee1.1 min15:13
  26. Mar 6, 2026City Council7.5 min1:14:51
  27. Mar 3, 2026City Council1.3 min53:25
  28. Feb 25, 2026City Council1.4 min1:57:02
  29. Feb 20, 2026City Council4.2 min2:09:54
  30. Feb 13, 2026City Council1.3 min1:06:33
  31. Feb 11, 2026City Council0.8 min1:26:58
  32. Feb 4, 2026City Council2.6 min1:19:47
  33. Feb 3, 2026City Council0.4 min39:27
  34. Jan 28, 2026City Council1.8 min1:05:55
  35. Jan 27, 2026City Council8.1 min54:58
  36. Jan 23, 2026City Council2.2 min2:08:55
  37. Jan 21, 2026City Council4.6 min1:42:04
  38. Jan 14, 2026City Council2.0 min1:19:33
  39. Jan 13, 2026City Council0.1 min28:38
  40. Jan 13, 2026Planning and Land Use Management Committee11.7 min27:25
  41. Jan 9, 2026City Council3.3 min2:06:52
  42. Dec 12, 2025City Council6.9 min3:06:58
  43. Dec 10, 2025City Council0.2 min2:37:46
  44. Dec 9, 2025City Council2.1 min1:28:34
  45. Dec 2, 2025City Council2.5 min2:40:35
  46. Nov 17, 2025Planning and Land Use Management Committee6.4 min35:14
  47. Nov 12, 2025City Council9.3 min2:01:45
  48. Nov 4, 2025City Council1.2 min1:06:34
  49. Oct 31, 2025City Council0.7 min1:25:25
  50. Oct 28, 2025Planning and Land Use Management Committee2.0 min42:27
  51. Oct 24, 2025City Council3.3 min1:09:06
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 Raman’s voice at 61 meetings across two bodies. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Raman was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Nithya Raman’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 Raman 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 Raman or of Los Angeles alone.