AI in Long Beach, California

Long Beach, California by the numbers

US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023, Los Angeles County.

Population

9,848,406

Median household income

$87,760

Unemployment rate

7%

Largest industry

Education/Health Services

Share in that industry

21.7%

Poverty rate

13.4%

Median home value

$783,300

Read the full AI ethics guide for Los Angeles County

Government

• City of Long Beach Generative AI Guidance v1.1

  The City recognises generative AI as a valid exploratory personal assistant tool while explicitly discouraging heavy reliance on it or use in critical processes until further policy exists, and states it recommends no particular system and has no Enterprise generative AI in place. Staff are told to re-read it quarterly, because guidance will change with the technology, the law and practice. Few cities date their own certainty this honestly.

  Source: City of Long Beach · verified September 2026

• Multiple-reviewer rule for decisions affecting rights

  Where generative AI is used in relation to City processes that can alter an individual or community's rights, freedoms or access to services, multiple users should thoroughly review it before any document is finalised or action taken. Scaling the review requirement to the consequence, rather than applying one rule to everything, is the design most municipal AI policies are missing.

  Source: City of Long Beach · verified September 2026

• Citation, disclosure and separate City accounts

  Staff are asked to disclose generative AI use to Technology and Innovation, to cite which system was used and confirm they have fact-checked everything, and to keep a separate generative AI account for City use so public records stay separate from personal ones. That last instruction is a public-records point disguised as an account-management tip, and it is the sort of thing only a city that has thought it through writes down.

  Source: City of Long Beach · verified September 2026

• Long Beach Data Privacy Guidelines — approved 9 March 2021

  Approved by City Council, the guidelines commit Long Beach never to sell personal data or permit vendors to sell it, to work toward letting people opt out of collection not required for a service, and to ensure human oversight of algorithms and artificial intelligence. A human-oversight commitment made in 2021, before the current cycle, is the foundation the later generative AI guidance rests on.

  Source: City of Long Beach · verified September 2026

• Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors AI policy framework directive

  On 7 May 2024 the Board directed the Chief Information Office, with the Internal Services Department, to report back within 90 days on a proposed AI and generative AI policy and governance framework. The directive named five required elements: a technology directive on responsible use covering data privacy and cyber security, options for a governance framework, a focus on mitigating bias, privacy breaches, security risks and job displacement, an external stakeholder input process, and a communication plan. Job displacement appearing in a technology directive is unusual, and it reaches Los Angeles County employers as much as County departments.

  Source: County of Los Angeles Chief Executive Office · verified September 2026

• The court disclosure threshold — only if written entirely by AI

  The generative AI policies covering the Los Angeles and Riverside County superior courts require disclosure only if a motion, decision or other document is written ENTIRELY with generative AI. Partial assistance therefore needs no disclosure to litigants or the public. Recorded because the threshold is the whole rule: almost no document is produced entirely by a model, so a disclosure duty pitched at that level will rarely be triggered. Any Los Angeles County organisation writing a disclosure rule should decide this threshold deliberately rather than inherit it.

  Source: CalMatters · verified September 2026

• California Executive Order N-5-26 — trusted AI procurement

  Signed 30 March 2026, this order requires any company selling AI to the State of California to certify that its systems carry safeguards against illegal content, harmful bias, and violations of civil rights and liberties. For an organisation in Los Angeles County the practical reach is wider than state agencies: procurement certification language is routinely inherited by counties and cities writing their own contracts, so this is the wording local buyers are most likely to copy.

  Source: Office of the Governor of California · verified September 2026

• California SAM 4986 — state GenAI policy suite

  The Department of Technology sets the operative rules for generative AI in California government through the State Administrative Manual, effective 20 February 2025. SAM 4986.1 governs responsible and secure use; SAM 4986.4 requires transparency about training data, with documentation posted publicly from 1 January 2026. Public bodies in Los Angeles County sit downstream of both, and private employers get a published, free drafting reference that state oversight already recognises.

  Source: California Department of Technology · verified September 2026

• California AB 2013 — generative AI training data disclosure

  AB 2013 requires public disclosure of the data used to train generative AI systems, including summaries of the datasets and their sources. It is one of the few obligations that reaches model developers rather than deployers, which matters in Los Angeles County because it changes what a buyer there can reasonably demand: a supplier subject to AB 2013 has already had to produce the disclosure, so asking for it is asking for something that exists.

  Source: California Legislature / CDT · verified September 2026

• California Executive Order N-12-23 — the GenAI framework

  The September 2023 order that established how California prepares for generative AI, and the instrument the later procurement and workforce orders build on. Reading it first makes the rest legible. For Los Angeles County organisations it is the clearest statement of the state posture: adopt deliberately, assess risk before deployment, and treat public-sector use as requiring justification rather than permission.

  Source: California Government Operations Agency · verified September 2026

Procurement

• Thirteen AI meeting assistants named as not permitted

  Integrating any non-contracted generative AI with the City's Microsoft environment without an executed licence is not permitted, and the guidance names the products: Otter.ai, Read AI, Atlas, Avoma, Colibri, Compas, Dubber, Fathom, Fireflies.ai, Gong, Grain, Meet Record, MeetGeek and Sembly. Meeting assistants are the most common route by which an organisation loses control of its own recordings, and naming them removes the ambiguity a category ban leaves.

  Source: City of Long Beach · verified September 2026

• Data Privacy Guidelines Implementation Plan

  Long Beach followed its guidelines with a published implementation plan setting out the tools, processes, people and training required. Publishing the implementation plan alongside the commitment is the step that separates a policy from a press release, and it is precisely what Philadelphia's undocumented governance committee shows the cost of skipping.

  Source: City of Long Beach · verified September 2026

• Los Angeles County AI use case inventory

  The Board required a communication plan ensuring both technology and programme staff know the policy framework and the innovations available through an AI use case inventory. An inventory is the control that makes the rest enforceable: an organisation cannot govern systems it has not enumerated, and shadow adoption by programme staff is how most Los Angeles County organisations end up with AI they never approved.

  Source: County of Los Angeles Chief Executive Office · verified September 2026

Event

• Long Beach Data Walks

  The City hosts Data Walks to increase transparency and public awareness of its data collection practices, and commits to participatory feedback channels through which residents can inform practice, raise privacy complaints and hold the City to the guidelines. A public complaint route with a named owner is the difference between accountability and a statement of values.

  Source: City of Long Beach · verified September 2026

Organization

• CSULB AI PM/CM Lab, Hung Family College of Engineering

  A California State University Long Beach lab advancing applied research and industry implementation of AI methods for planning, delivery, monitoring, risk management, safety, productivity and decision support in project and construction management, and openly inviting industry and public-sector partners for applied research, pilot studies and workforce training. For a port and construction economy, that is the locally relevant AI question rather than the national one.

  Source: California State University, Long Beach · verified September 2026

• Government AI Coalition

  Los Angeles County developed its framework through engagement with the Government AI Coalition, a cross-agency body committed to ethical, non-discriminatory AI governance, vendor accountability and shared practice between governments. For a Los Angeles County organisation the coalition is the more useful artefact than the policy itself, because it is where the model contract terms and vendor questions are worked out collectively rather than by each agency alone.

  Source: County of Los Angeles Chief Executive Office · verified September 2026

Case study

• Learned Hand — AI clerk piloted in Los Angeles County Superior Court

  The Superior Court began a pilot in February 2026 of Learned Hand, an AI clerk built on models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google, used mainly in civil cases to research, summarise motions and draft tentative rulings, with contract provisions allowing expansion to criminal, family and probate divisions. The court declined to confirm whether parties in tested cases know the tool is being used. For Los Angeles County this is the closest AI deployment to a decision that binds a resident.

  Source: CalMatters · verified September 2026

Training

• California AI workforce preparation executive order

  Signed 21 May 2026, this order directs the state to prepare workers, small businesses and communities for economic disruption from AI. It is the instrument that funds and frames retraining, so for employers in Los Angeles County planning workforce change it identifies which state programmes are being pointed at the problem rather than leaving the question to guesswork.

  Source: Office of the Governor of California · verified September 2026

• California judicial branch generative AI rules

  The California Courts published their own generative AI requirements, which matter to Los Angeles County beyond the courts themselves: they are the clearest published example in the state of an institution that must accept AI-assisted work from outside parties setting out what it will and will not tolerate. Any organisation filing, reporting or contracting into a regulated process can read it as a floor.

  Source: Judicial Council of California · verified September 2026

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