{"id":432267,"date":"2026-08-14T00:42:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432267\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T00:42:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:42:41","slug":"bakersfield-stops-work-on-becoming-a-sanctuary-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432267\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield stops work on becoming a sanctuary city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bakersfield will not name itself a sanctuary city after the city council opted against it last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The city council directed city staff to stop working on anything related to a sanctuary city policy, as well as any work on holding a TRUTH Act hearing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Driving the news: Several people spoke at the city council\u2019s meeting on July 15 requesting that the city adopt a policy declaring itself a sanctuary city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Councilmembers Manpreet Kaur and Andrae Gonzales asked city staff to draft up a sanctuary city policy and prepare a TRUTH Act forum.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>City Manager Christian Clegg said at the time that the city could schedule a special meeting for the Laws and Legislation Committee to potentially discuss the policy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The big picture: Dozens of people showed up at last week\u2019s city council meeting to protest any proposals to make Bakersfield a sanctuary city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The sanctuary city policy was not on the agenda, and at the end of the meeting, Councilman Zack Bashirtash made a referral to city staff to stop work on a sanctuary city policy and conduct a TRUTH Act hearing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>None of the other councilmembers objected to Bashirtash\u2019s referral, putting an end to the sanctuary city talk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What they\u2019re saying: City spokesperson Joe Conroy told KGET that the sanctuary city policy is not expected to return to the city council or to any committee meetings after the referral from Bashirtash.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bakersfield will not name itself a sanctuary city after the city council opted against it last week.\u00a0 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-432267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432267","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=432267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}