For the past 11 days, residents have shown up to middle schools, libraries and parks to take part in a series of community budget meetings hosted by Long Beach. Still, skeptics are unsure if community members' input will truly be taken into account.
The Equity & Human Relations Commission is no longer asking for the creation of a community oversight commission to monitor future developments in police surveillance, saying such a body would do more harm than good.
Any new name for the park should “be discussed in consultation with the Native Americans of the land on which we live, the Tongva people,” according to a letter from the Equity and Human Relations Commission.
A draft letter from the Equity and Human Relations Commission says, in part, "that racist technology cannot be reformed, it must be banned altogether."