High Stakes, Dirty Water, Red Flags: Compton Mayor Emma Sharif Chaired the JPA While It Operated Out of Garza’s Private Firm — And the Oversight Failures Are Staggering

High Stakes, Dirty Water, Red Flags: Compton Mayor Emma Sharif Chaired the JPA While It Operated Out of Garza’s Private Firm — And the Oversight Failures Are Staggering

By Brian Hews Publisher | Follow X December 12, 2025 Compton Mayor Emma Sharif is already on the front page this week for a separate developing controversy. But her role in another major governance failure is equally damning: as chair of the California Cities for Self-Reliance Joint Powers Authority [CCSR], Sharif directly presided over — and failed to stop — the transformation of a public agency into a private operation controlled entirely by C…