Claude Parrish

1What can this job do?

The elected Assessor sets the official value of every home, business, and piece of property in Orange County — the number your property-tax bill is calculated from. This office tracks ownership changes, applies exemptions (like the homeowner's exemption), and keeps the county's property roll.

✗It does NOT set the property-tax RATE (California's Proposition 13 and the law do) or collect the tax (the Treasurer-Tax Collector does), and it has no say in how the tax money is spent.

2What has this person done with it?

We don't yet track a record of this official's actions here. The public record for county offices lives in the Board of Supervisors' agendas and recorded votes, the office's own reports, and campaign-finance filings with the county. Those are the primary sources — we'd rather point you to them than summarize selectively.

We only log matters of public record, in the same format for every official — never opinion or news coverage.

3How does this affect you?

Every property owner in Orange County deals with this one Assessor. The Assessor decides the taxable value of land and buildings — the number your property tax bill is built on. You don't have a neighborhood assessor; one countywide official sets the assessed value for every property, including yours.

4How do you change it?

This is an elected seat with a four-year term, chosen countywide — every voter in Orange County votes for this one official, so your vote is one of well over a million. These races are on the regular June or November ballot. Registration, polling place, and mail ballots run through the Orange County Registrar of Voters (ocvote.gov). Countywide administrative offices like this draw little attention; a reminder near the election helps.

We haven't verified when this seat is next on the ballot — rather than guess, we say so.