Rob Bonta

1What can this job do?

The Attorney General is California's top lawyer and law-enforcement officer. The office represents the state in court, defends and challenges laws, enforces consumer-protection, civil-rights, and environmental law, oversees local district attorneys and police on statewide issues, and issues legal opinions that guide state agencies.

✗It does NOT write laws or prosecute most everyday local crime — that stays with each county's District Attorney. The Attorney General does not judge cases or set policy for local police departments.

2What has this person done with it?

We don't yet track a record of this official's actions here. For state offices, the public record is unusually good: recorded votes and bill histories are at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov, and campaign finance is at the Secretary of State's Cal-Access. Those primary sources are the place to look — we'd rather send you there 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 Californian shares this office. The attorney general is California's top lawyer and law-enforcement officer — representing the state in court, enforcing state laws, and overseeing the Department of Justice. You share this one official with the whole state.

4How do you change it?

This is an elected statewide office with a four-year term, limited to two terms — every voter in California chooses it together, so your vote is one of millions. These offices are on the ballot in the same even-year cycle as the Governor. Registration, polling place, and mail ballots run through the Orange County Registrar of Voters (ocvote.gov).

☑This seat is expected on the ballot November 3, 2026 — that's the county's forecast, not yet the official notice of election.