{"id":84953,"date":"2025-12-07T10:39:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/84953\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T10:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:39:22","slug":"city-seeks-public-input-ahead-of-search-for-new-bpd-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/84953\/","title":{"rendered":"City seeks public input ahead of search for new BPD chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The city of Bakersfield will hold two listening sessions Tuesday to gather public feedback ahead of a search for a new chief of police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a news release, the city said it will soon begin its search for a new chief of police as Chief Greg Terry has announced his retirement, effective in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Before that search begins, City Manager Christian Clegg wants to hear from the public what they want to see in the next chief.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Clegg will host two Community Listening Sessions to receive public feedback on the qualities the city should look for in a chief and community priorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The first session will be held in-person at noon in City Council Chambers at City Hall South, 1501 Truxtun Ave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The second session will be held virtually at 7 p.m. via Microsoft Teams. The meeting can be accessed using the following link: bit.ly\/48gtUto<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">These meetings are to be open, welcoming spaces for residents to share their thoughts on what should be prioritized in the search for a new police chief and the feedback will help guide the search process, according to a city announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city of Bakersfield will hold two listening sessions Tuesday to gather public feedback ahead of a search&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,47910,47908,47909,47907],"class_list":["post-84953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-chief-greg-terry","tag-chief-of-police","tag-city-council-chambers","tag-public-feedback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84953","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=84953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}