LOS ANGELES — Mayor Eric Garcetti signed an executive directive June 19 to address racial equity in Los Angeles by requiring city departments to plan for the reinstatement of affirmative action in California and for city employees to take implicit-bias training.
The executive directive will require that every department general manager and head of city offices to name a racial equity representative who will be tasked with developing and overseeing their respective department’s racial equity plan.
Garcetti also announced Brenda Shockley, who has worked in his office as the deputy mayor of economic opportunity, will be the city’s first chief officer of the recently established Office of Racial Equity.
“Racial equity in city government is a much-needed and valuable tool and a way to truly identify and measure progress toward a fair and equitable Los Angeles.”
“I’ll be looking at what [departments have] done … to advance racial equity and justice inside their department and in our city,” Shockley said.
