{"id":418086,"date":"2026-07-30T15:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418086\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T15:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:02:09","slug":"sacramento-mayor-not-seeking-major-changes-despite-repeated-council-meeting-disruptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418086\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento mayor not seeking major changes despite repeated council meeting disruptions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disruptions have been replacing discourse at Sacramento City Hall, with recent chaos in council chambers forcing public meetings to be shut down.<\/p>\n

Sacramento City Clerk Mindy Cuppy responded Tuesday to the outbursts by reciting government codes to bring the council meeting to a halt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The City Council will take a brief recess so that decorum in chambers can be established,” Cuppy said.<\/p>\n

Mayor Kevin McCarty has not barred anyone from returning to the chambers because of the recent disruptions, even as some councilmembers have raised questions about how the city should respond.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Vice Mayor Karina Talamantes was heard on a hot mic asking McCarty about how disruptions should be handled.<\/p>\n

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

“We’re always balancing the First Amendment,” McCarty said. “It’s not always black and white. And we have sidebars all the time as far as what should we do managing that meeting.”<\/p>\n

Giselle Garcia, program director for NorCal Resist, said she supports the protests and the disruptions taking place during council meetings.<\/p>\n

“I think that this is the result of their behavior,” Garcia said. “Disruption is not disruption for the sake of chaos, right? It’s disruption for the sake of results.”<\/p>\n

NorCal Resist opposes the council’s recent agreement to share data with a federal task force aimed at combating terrorism. Opponents have raised concerns that the information could be used to target immigrants.<\/p>\n

Disruptions in Sacramento City Council chambers are not new.<\/p>\n

During protests following the 2018 police shooting and killing of Stephon Clark, his brother, Stevante Clark, jumped onto the dais near then-Mayor Darrell Steinberg’s seat during a protest that took over a council meeting.<\/p>\n

“It hasn’t been, you know, as it was in years past,” McCarty said. “I know I spoke recently to Darrell Steinberg, who was mayor, and they had plenty of meetings that were shut down.”<\/p>\n

For now, McCarty said he is not calling for major changes to council chamber protocols and expects the disruptions will eventually subside.<\/p>\n

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