{"id":243817,"date":"2026-03-30T20:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T20:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/243817\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T20:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T20:04:07","slug":"which-offices-are-closed-for-farmworkers-day-in-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/243817\/","title":{"rendered":"Which offices are closed for Farmworkers Day in Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"

As California celebrates its first-ever Farmworkers Day on Tuesday, some Sacramento-area offices will be closed for the newly renamed state holiday.<\/p>\n

The holiday was formerly known as Cesar Chavez Day<\/a> in honor of the civil rights icon, but the California legislature swiftly approved a name change signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom following new accusations of impropriety by Chavez, The Sacramento Bee reported.<\/p>\n

Sacramento County renamed the holiday<\/a> to Sacramento County Farmworkers Appreciation Day.<\/p>\n

An annual march in Chavez\u2019s honor has been canceled and the city of Sacramento has covered a statue<\/a> of him at Cesar Chavez Plaza, which may be renamed.<\/p>\n

\"Black Black plastic covers the statue depicting Cesar Chavez in Cesar E. Chavez Plaza in Sacramento on Friday, March 20, 2026. City officials have announced plans to rename the park after accusations of rape and sexual assault by the civil rights leader surfaced a few days earlier. JOS\u00c9 LUIS VILLEGAS jvillegas@sacbee.com <\/p>\n

Chavez, who died in 1993, was an influential labor leader<\/a>, community organizer and civil rights leader who helped organize the United Farm Workers union.<\/p>\n

The New York Times reported March 18 that Chavez has been accused of sexually abusing<\/a> at least two teens. Fellow labor leader Dolores Huerta revealed that he raped her twice.<\/p>\n

The news prompted lawmakers to fast-track a name change<\/a> for the upcoming holiday.<\/p>\n

The day, which marks Chavez\u2019s birthday, was set as a holiday in California in 2000. Legislators said they plan to eventually sever the holiday\u2019s date from its connection to Chavez.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s closed in Sacramento for Farmworkers Day?<\/p>\n

All California state offices and state courts are closed for the holiday.<\/p>\n

State universities, colleges and community colleges will be closed, including UC Davis, Sacramento State, American River College, Sacramento City College, Folsom Lake College and Cosumnes River College.<\/p>\n

The San Juan Unified School District and Sacramento City Unified School District are already closed this week for spring break. Check with other school districts.<\/p>\n

Sacramento County offices and libraries will be closed.<\/p>\n

Sacramento city offices will be closed, although trash pickup services in the city will continue as normal. City offices in Elk Grove also will be closed.<\/p>\n

City offices in Citrus Heights, Folsom and Rancho Cordova will be open. City offices in Isleton already operate on a limited schedule on Tuesdays.<\/p>\n

Sacramento\u2019s Regional Transit system will operate normally.<\/p>\n

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Don Sweeney<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Don Sweeney has been a newspaper reporter and editor in California for more than 35 years. He is a service reporter based at The Sacramento Bee.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As California celebrates its first-ever Farmworkers Day on Tuesday, some Sacramento-area offices will be closed for the newly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[109306,105664,103407,121,109307,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-243817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-california-holiday-closures","9":"tag-cesar-chavez-name-change","10":"tag-farmworkers-day","11":"tag-sacramento","12":"tag-sacramento-county-offices","13":"tag-sacramento-headlines","14":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243817","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=243817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}