Elk Grove will fight fair housing lawsuit filed by State of California, Attorney General Rob Bonta

In a terse statement at the start of Wednesday, May 10, 2023, Elk Grove City Council meeting, it was announced the city would defend itself against a lawsuit filed by the State of California and California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen announced the decision as the council reconvened their meeting after a closed session. Singh-Allen said the five-member body unanimously directed city attorney Jonathan Hobbs to defend the lawsuit alleging the city violated fair housing laws with discriminatory intent with their July 2022 denial of the Oak Rose affordable housing project.
Singh-Allen provided no further comment, and Hobbs did not speak on the matter. Although the city has a legal department with four attorneys, they generally do not litigate.
Instead, large complex cases have been handled by the Sacramento-based law firm of Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard. Hobbs was an equity partner at Kronick before becoming city attorney.
There has been no disclosure of who will litigate for the city.

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