A federal judge approved two people to monitor the city of Los Angeles’ compliance with an agreement to create more shelter for unhoused people after ruling this summer that city officials failed to fully follow through.

The L.A. City Council still has to vote on accepting as monitors Ron Galperin, a former L.A. city controller, and Daniel Garrie, a founder and managing partner of a law firm that focuses on cybersecurity.

The pair will be tasked with reviewing city data for its quarterly reports to the court, verifying the numbers, resolving any data issues and providing public reports on data compliance.

Judge David O. Carter wrote in his June ruling that the third-party monitors would ask “the hard questions on behalf of Angelenos.”

In the ruling , Carter found that city offici

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