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Council member, Council District 14, opened the remarks by describing two back-to-back impressions in the neighborhood: \"Yesterday, we celebrated the grand opening of the Skid Row care campus... But while one neighborhood celebrated, another braced itself.\" The council member said the ICE operation involved agents who detained \"a worker delivering produce\" without a warrant and that the action occurred during a cultural celebration near the museum.

June Hibino, of the Nikkei Progressives and the Little Tokyo Rapid Response Network, said the community has organized \"Know Your Rights\" trainings and rapid-response outreach and warned that the ICE presence echoed the community's history of exclusion and wartime incarceration. \"Our Japanese American story... is one of exclusion, exclusionary laws, of being scapegoated,\" Hibino said, adding that the city must take concrete measures to \"put some teeth into our sanctuary city laws ordinance.\"

Kimi Maru, also with Nikkei Progressives, described responding on the ground: \"It was really a terrifying experience to see so many armed ICE and CBP people wearing masks... They were holding large rifles and actually... pointing them at people at different times. It was very intimidating.\" Maru said members of the Rapid Response Network warned businesses and street vendors, went door to door and used the network to alert neighbors.

Bill Fujioka, former city administrative officer and chair of the Japanese American National Museum board, framed the arrest as a painful historical echo. \"When the arrest took place, it hit a nerve... the exact location where individuals of Japanese heritage were forced on the buses and taken to concentration camps,\" Fujioka said. He told the council the museum stands \"for social justice\" and urged elected leaders to act.

Speakers tied their concerns to the City of Los Angeles’ sanctuary policy. \"Last November, the city council unanimously voted to establish the City of Los Angeles as a sanctuary city,\" Hibino said, and asked what concrete steps the city will take \"to protect our immigrant families who are being terrorized by ICE and CBP.\" Speakers urged stronger protection for schools, houses of worship, community organizations and small businesses.

Council staff and the presenting member circulated the local rapid-response phone number for residents and advocates: the Los Angeles Rapid Response Network at (888) 624-4752, which the council office asked residents to save for immediate alerts and assistance.

No formal council action on immigration enforcement was taken during the meeting. The council accepted public testimony on the incident and other topics. On routine procedural business the clerk reported that items 1 through 3 and 5 and 6 were called for vote and recorded as \"10 ayes.\" Separately, the clerk said a request to continue item 4 to Aug. 22, 2025, was filed and that items 7 and 8 were referred back to the Budget and Finance Committee by unanimous consent; those procedural referrals were entered into the record during the same session.

Why this matters: speakers and city leaders said the Little Tokyo operation, which occurred during a major cultural celebration, risked retraumatizing a community with a documented history of forced removal and incarceration. Advocates urged the council to translate the city’s sanctuary policy into enforceable actions and to coordinate rapid-response outreach, legal support and public safety measures to protect residents and neighborhood institutions.

Meeting actions at a glance: The clerk recorded votes on items 1–3 and 5–6 as \"10 ayes.\" The council granted a request to continue item 4 to Aug. 22, 2025, and referred items 7 and 8 back to the Budget and Finance Committee by unanimous consent. No immigration- or enforcement-related ordinance or motion was introduced or voted on during the portions of the meeting covered in the record.

Community response and next steps: Advocates said they will continue Little Tokyo Rapid Response Network operations, expand Know Your Rights trainings, and request the council consider measurable changes to sanctuary enforcement. Council offices asked constituents to report ICE activity to the Los Angeles Rapid Response Network phone line and to bring eyewitness accounts to the council record.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Regular City Council - 8/15/25","oneSentenceSummary","At a regularly scheduled Los Angeles City Council meeting in August 2025, community leaders from Little Tokyo and a council member urged the city to strengthen enforcement of its sanctuary-city protections after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation outside the Japanese American National Museum during Nisei Week.","taxTitle","Los Angeles City, Los Angeles County, California","taxId",4025,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6496643,"Council honors Bureau of Street Lighting on 100th anniversary, highlights LEDs, EV chargers and fiber co-location",822,3507000,4329000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5590740-49476ec9b9b9b5f78f844683469eabbe&start=3507&end=4329","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5590740-49476ec9b9b9b5f78f844683469eabbe/thumbnail_3507000.jpg","/articles/6496643/Los-Angeles-City/Los-Angeles-County/California/Council-honors-Bureau-of-Street-Lighting-on-100th-anniversary-highlights-LEDs-EV-chargers-and-fiber-co-location","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6496643-11587267e3d9edd1bebf25efbbed2dc8/orig.mp4?Expires=1770404569&Signature=j7tJ72N~0Gr19Ii3QcJOwUXBfoRy2bE8OtbWyy~Lv6AULNxxTlnsrttU46i2Q8LJ5I~8l1f-DzT3gNTJxkYCQhRmv2mvHnWAeOPIVInCUvLiUVqD7OkI9FOQI8WHkg-Aw1plYS4UVuYHG~ES8DmL6hCd9S8Q-KLgWMkq2as~5LPmO9dpqtPlfIAzk5cXJqq-fg~ko4yRQ0KsUd99KRVpyWT1ZKtIKzhLz~m~HSznloph9RvI3JbU~UNBZxJKbObviG4AfYzlgsrvXtvswe9wRuDvsG7yvEY6cvjuGTFN6pNYg8vsTp0AHvfT6mhjKiKzDnFUMzlXUhP7mY0MmDhSjQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Los Angeles City Council recognized the 100th anniversary of the Bureau of Street Lighting at a meeting in August 2025, with council members and bureau leaders highlighting the department’s long history, recent technology upgrades and challenges such as copper wire theft and limited resources.

Council member Tim McCosker (chairing the celebration) noted the centennial as a milestone for a department that \"has illuminated our neighborhoods, our streets, our businesses, our city\" since its founding in 1925. Council member Eunice Hernandez, chair of the Public Works Committee, said the bureau does \"more with less,\" receiving under half a percent of unrestricted general-fund revenues while maintaining a large, citywide network.

Miguel Sangalang, general manager of the Bureau of Street Lighting, outlined the bureau’s current portfolio and recent innovations. He said the bureau maintains \"over 223,000\" street lights across the city, operates a network of conduit and wiring, and has introduced LED conversions, EV charging installations at poles, solar-plus-storage pilots and fiber co-location that support broadband and 5G initiatives. He described internal shop capabilities that now include plasma cutters and 3-D printers used to fabricate replacement parts in-house.

Sangalang also introduced bureau staff and credited field crews, engineers and in-house weld and fabrication teams for both heritage work and new approaches that reduce costs and speed repairs. He pointed to an on-site art installation that collects historical streetlight designs, and he said the bureau is posting historical records and photos online for public access.

Council members thanked bureau staff for their service and called attention to three operational priorities raised during remarks: hardening infrastructure against copper wire theft, investing to support co-location and new technologies, and ensuring maintenance capacity to keep the network operational. Council member Paul Blumenfield warned that citywide lighting and related services are changing rapidly and that the city has not raised related rates since 1996, signaling a potential need for new funding approaches.

Why this matters: presenters emphasized that streetlights are no longer only illumination devices but platforms for civic infrastructure — supporting traffic safety, public safety, broadband and electric-vehicle charging — and that investment and protection of assets are required to realize those functions.

Council action and next steps: the presentation was ceremonial; no ordinance or budget appropriation was adopted during the session. Council members pledged continued oversight and support and encouraged public outreach to explain the bureau’s evolving role. The bureau said it will continue posting historical and technical resources online and pursue operational measures to reduce theft and improve responsiveness.

Notable numbers and details cited in the presentation: the bureau reported maintaining over 223,000 street lights; the city’s network includes roughly 9,000 miles of conduit and about 27,000 miles of copper wire; the bureau said it has roughly 400 different pole designs across neighborhoods. The bureau also highlighted firsts including its first female superintendent in the field office and recent in-house fabrication capacity.","City leaders and bureau officials marked the Bureau of Street Lighting’s 100th anniversary at a council meeting in August 2025 and highlighted the bureau’s shift to LED, pilot solar poles, EV chargers and fiber co-location. Presenters cited the agency’s scale and urged continued investment to support evolving technologies and to address theft and","actionData","errors"]

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