{"id":434922,"date":"2026-08-17T01:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/434922\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T01:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:30:11","slug":"california-recruits-teen-tech-council-to-help-advise-on-states-ai-and-technology-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/434922\/","title":{"rendered":"California recruits teen tech council to help advise on state\u2019s AI and technology decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">CALIFORNIA IS LAUNCHING a teen tech council to provide students an opportunity to advise on state decisions about technology, artificial intelligence and digital wellness, Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s office\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2026\/08\/11\/first-partner-siebel-newsom-governor-newsom-and-halfthestory-launch-californias-first-teen-tech-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a>\u00a0this past Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Teen Tech Council, which is in partnership with youth advocacy nonprofit #HalfTheStory and part of Newsom\u2019s California Innovation Council, convened 20 teens representing more than 10 school districts for the council\u2019s first meeting in Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading for FREE<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">This is NOT a paywall. We just want to make sure you\u2019re a human. Sign in to read this story and receive the weekly roundup in your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to manage your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALIFORNIA IS LAUNCHING a teen tech council to provide students an opportunity to advise on state decisions about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[172651,2080,7,9,55065,8,172652,7024,15,5037,89565,30648,4568,3183,1970],"class_list":["post-434922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-halfthestory","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-innovation-council","tag-california-news","tag-digital-wellness","tag-edsource","tag-education","tag-gov-gavin-newsom","tag-kim-johnson","tag-nani-coloretti","tag-social-media","tag-students","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434922","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=434922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}