{"id":258136,"date":"2026-04-08T20:35:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/258136\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T20:35:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:35:31","slug":"bakersfield-pd-to-host-community-conversation-event-thursday-in-ne-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/258136\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield PD to host community conversation event Thursday in NE Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department is inviting community members from the Hill Zone to a meeting Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The BPD CARES Series \u2014 short for Community Action Responsibility Engagement Support \u2014 is scheduled from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 9 at Summit Coffee at 7100 Auburn St., according to officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Community members in the Hill Zone can engage in conversation regarding community concerns, collaboration and empowerment, community development, outreach and partnership and community engagement, BPD said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There are two more CARES meetings scheduled for other areas in April, according to BPD. The South Zone meeting is set for April 16 and the Metro Zone meeting is set for April 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For more information, contact the BPD Community Relations Unit at 661-326-3053 or bpdcommunity@bakersfieldpd.us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To check which zone you\u2019re living in, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/mapviewer\/index.html?webmap=606e2ae7b3e346e08e32fee73b49d5a5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">click 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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.&quot;}\" 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 Bakersfield Police Department is inviting community members from the Hill Zone to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,324,31530,27207,6922,114049],"class_list":{"0":"post-258136","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","11":"tag-bakersfield-police-department","12":"tag-community-concerns","13":"tag-community-development","14":"tag-community-engagement","15":"tag-summit-coffee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258136","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=258136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}