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Committee hears progress on transfers as city pares down eliminated filled positions, LAPD still concentrated
Summary
The Special Personnel and Hiring Committee heard that eliminated filled positions citywide declined from 595 to 184, with 152 of those in the Los Angeles Police Department; personnel described an expedited transfer portal and targeted roadshows to place affected employees but said several LAPD classifications remain difficult to reassign.
The Special Personnel and Hiring Committee heard an update Feb. 26 on the city's effort to place employees affected by position eliminations.
"As of 07/01/2025, there were 595 eliminated filled positions," Kimberly Squire of the CAO office told the committee, and "there are now 184 eliminated filled positions with 152 of them in the police department." Squire said the figures reflect data as of Feb. 12, 2026 and that updated numbers will be supplied at the next meeting.
Why it matters: large concentrations of affected positions within a single department raise risks for employees and operations during budget implementation, and the committee has kept the…
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