On January 3, 2011, Kamala D. Harris was sworn in as the 32nd Attorney General of the State of California. On November 4, 2014 she was re-elected to a second term in office. She is the first woman, the first African American, and the first South Asian to hold the office in the history of California.
As chief law enforcement officer for the state, Attorney General Harris has focused on combating transnational gangs that are trafficking guns, drugs, and human beings throughout California. She has fought to reduce truancy among California’s elementary school students and ensure that every California child can exercise their constitutional right to an education. Attorney General Harris has worked to increase the adoption of technology and data-driven policing to assist law enforcement in the efficient investigation and prosecution of crime, and has traveled to every region of California to expand partnerships with local law enforcement. And she established the California Department of Justice Division of Recidivism Reduction and Re-entry to reduce crime by getting offenders back on track to productive, law-abiding lives.
As chief lawyer for the people of California, Attorney General Harris has led a bold response to the state’s foreclosure crisis. She expanded prosecutions of mortgage-related fraud and crime by establishing a multidivisional Mortgage Fraud Strike Force. On behalf of California homeowners, she secured more than $18 billion from the nation’s banks as part of the recent National Mortgage Settlement, including $12 billion in principal reductions. To restore transparency and fairness to the mortgage and foreclosure system, she wrote the nation’s most comprehensive package of foreclosure reforms—the California Homeowner Bill of Rights—and fought successfully for its passage through the California Legislature and saw it signed into law.
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