{"id":225881,"date":"2026-03-18T21:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/225881\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T21:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:44:07","slug":"sacramento-mayor-starts-process-to-rename-cesar-chavez-plaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/225881\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento mayor starts process to rename Cesar Chavez Plaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid new allegations reported by the New York Times, Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty started a process to rename Cesar Chavez Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 Amid new sexual misconduct allegations surrounding historic labor leader Cesar Chavez, Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty starting the process of removing the labor icon&#8217;s name from Cesar Chavez Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations were <a href=\"http:\/\/statics.teams.cdn.office.net\/evergreen-assets\/safelinks\/2\/atp-safelinks.html\" id=\"isPasted\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first reported on by the New York Times<\/a>. Chavez is alleged to have sexually assaulted multiple children, and his co-leader of the United Farm Workers union, Dolores Huerta, when she was in her 30s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mayor McCarty said the city is taking the allegations against Chavez, who died in 1993, seriously.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As someone who supported and participated in UFW and Chavez Day marches for 30 years, I&#8217;m personally saddened and disturbed by the allegations against Cesar Chavez. We take these allegations seriously and will ensure the naming of our City facilities aligns with our values,&#8221; McCarty said.<\/p>\n<p>McCarty said he&#8217;s appointing a council subcommittee, including Vice Mayor Karina Talamantes; Mayor Pro Tem Eric Guerra; and Councilmember Phil Pluckebaum; to guide the renaming of the downtown plaza park.<\/p>\n<p>ABC10 also reached out to the City of Modesto, which also has a park named after Cesar Chavez. A city spokesperson said they are still learning about all of the allegations and don&#8217;t have any updates at this time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BAXCuU0M-2c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">New allegations against Cesar Chavez surface as longtime leaders respond publicly<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    ABC10: Watch, Download, Read<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid new allegations reported by the New York Times, Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty started a process to rename&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-225881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225881","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=225881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}