{"id":155213,"date":"2026-01-29T18:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/155213\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T18:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:06:07","slug":"city-of-bakersfield-to-hold-final-listening-session-in-search-of-new-chief-of-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/155213\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Bakersfield to hold final listening session in search of new chief of police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The City of Bakersfield is set to host their final listening session in the search of a new chief of police as current Bakersfield chief of police Greg Terry readies for retirement in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The session will take place on Feb. 4 at 6 p.m. as a virtual meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bakersfield City Manager Christian Clegg will take the public\u2019s input on what they would like to see in the new chief of police including traits, values and priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To participate in a survey, click <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.zencity.io\/bakersfield-ca\/en\/engagements\/194b8e56-15f5-4c5a-bd80-31c2ef18f4ac?utm_medium=referral\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">here<\/a>. To join the session, click <a href=\"https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/dl\/launcher\/launcher.html?url=\/_%23\/meet\/21129469079711%3Fp%3DNl4Z21RCqwYIY2NlZl%26CT%3D1769473643358%26OR%3DOutlook-Body%26CID%3D2E8FA400-5F43-4FF1-9E83-522116D1A50F%26anon%3Dtrue&amp;type=meet&amp;deeplinkId=757383f9-d914-454f-8245-c3808fe90ba6&amp;dire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The City of Bakersfield is set to host their final listening session in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,23821,153,152,47908,75787],"class_list":["post-155213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-city-manager-christian-clegg","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-chief-of-police","tag-virtual-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155213","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=155213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}