Long Beach Briefs: New Charter Amendment to Reform CPCC and Update of the Racial Equity and Reconciliation Initiative

Long Beach City Council Takes First Step Toward Charter Amendment on Citizen Police Complaint Commission

As a part of the City of Long Beach Racial Equity and Reconciliation Initiative, the city council provided direction to engage an outside expert to evaluate the operations of the Citizens Police Complaint Commission or CPCC. After receiving a report on CPCC operations, the city council voted to direct the city manager to begin the process of creating a new Charter Amendment to reform the CPCC.

Among other reforms, this potential charter amendment would create a new “Inspector General” position, that would seek to address systemic racism and have oversight over internal affairs investigations. Any new Charter amendment would need to be approved by voters at the polls through a ballot initiative.

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City of Long Beach Releases One Year Update of the Racial Equity and Reconciliation Initiative

The City of Long Beach Office of Equity Feb. 1, presented its Racial Equity and Reconciliation Initiative: One Year Update to the Long Beach City City Council, highlighting key milestones and progressions reached by the city throughout 2021. The presentation from the racial equity implementation team included updates to the initial report, adopted by the city council in 2020, including successes, challenges, promising practices, emerging priorities, and next steps for implementation.

During the last year, the city’s racial equity implementation team and various corresponding city departments began implementing 93 immediate and short-term potential actions of the over 120 listed in the Racial Equity and Reconciliation Initiative: Initial Report. Twelve actions have already been completed, in large part due to the city’s focused efforts in aligning existing resources, programs and staff and establishing an internal infrastructure that allows strong collaboration across city departments.

Read more about the One Year Update HERE