{"id":151106,"date":"2026-01-27T05:07:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/151106\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T05:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:07:33","slug":"bakersfield-residents-invited-to-share-input-on-new-police-chief-in-virtual-session-feb-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/151106\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield residents invited to share input on new police chief in virtual session Feb. 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department is inviting the public to share their thoughts on what they would like to see in the next BPD chief in a virtual discussion.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, City Manager Christian Clegg and the city will host the virtual listening session via <a href=\"https:\/\/ayrs.io\/j22oVB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Microsoft Teams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is set to begin at 6 p.m. According to officials, three candidates have already been interviewed for the position.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bakersfield-seeks-community-input-in-search-for-new-police-chief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bakersfield seeks community input in search for new police chief<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A survey can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.zencity.io\/bakersfield-ca\/en\/engagements\/194b8e56-15f5-4c5a-bd80-31c2ef18f4ac?utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HERE <\/a>to provide feedback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department is inviting the public to share their thoughts on what they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-151106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}