{"id":409467,"date":"2026-07-23T14:32:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409467\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T14:32:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:32:35","slug":"sacramento-mayor-and-vice-mayor-caught-on-hot-mic-discussing-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409467\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento mayor and vice mayor caught on hot mic discussing bans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sacramento mayor and vice mayor caught on hot mic discussing council meeting disruptions<\/p>\n

\"David<\/p>\n

Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty and Vice Mayor Karina Talamantes were caught on a hot mic discussing ways to address disruptions during city council meetings after a contentious session Tuesday night. <\/p>\n

The discussion followed the council’s approval of a grant from the Central California Intelligence Center. Disruptions in the crowd prompted Mayor McCarty to pause the meeting and clear the chambers. <\/p>\n

A city live stream captured Talamantes approaching McCarty on the dais to discuss the issue. <\/p>\n

“We should go over this disruptions thing, because if we want to ban somebody in the future, like to actually take them out, we have to point out specifically,” Talamantes said. <\/p>\n

“I know, but the City Attorney said we can’t do that,” McCarty replied. <\/p>\n

Talamantes responded, “We did it last time.” <\/p>\n

McCarty added, “We can’t. I spent my first six months going over this. I wanted to give people, like, probation, like you can’t come.” <\/p>\n

The audio ended when Talamantes realized the microphone was on and quickly turned it off. <\/p>\n

Emails to the offices of McCarty and Talamantes seeking comment have not been answered as of Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a> | Make KCRA a preferred news source in Google<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento mayor and vice mayor caught on hot mic discussing council meeting disruptions Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[4760,162684,3557,162682,36893,17492,161545,141644,164110,96074,473,13130,6780,154592,162683,19349,161543,121,15950,123,122,141643],"class_list":["post-409467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-ad","tag-advertise","tag-am","tag-average-gas-price","tag-bans","tag-california-county","tag-collection-term","tag-email-weather-search","tag-hot-mic","tag-karina-talamantes","tag-kcra","tag-kevin-mccarty","tag-map","tag-menu-subscribe","tag-more-breaking-news","tag-page","tag-privacy-notice-notice","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-city-council","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-use-nextfre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409467","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=409467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}