Petition to Councilmember Tim McOsker, Janice Hahn, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and Los Angeles City leaders.

We support all lifeguards and respect the difficult work they do every day.  It is about ensuring that any change to lifeguard operations at Cabrillo Beach maintains or improves public safety. Before long-standing rescue operations are changed, the public deserves to see a transparent safety review, response-time analysis, staffing plan, training standards, and rescue capability assessment.

*LA City Parks & Rec lifeguards are set to takeover outer Cabrillo Beach, San Pedro, California starting in September. Currently LA County Lifeguards, who are known as the best in the world, guard our beaches with an impeccable track record. A major shift for our local beach and public safety. 

Cabrillo Beach is unlike many other beaches. It includes both a protected inner beach and an outer beach with open-ocean conditions, surf, currents, rock jetties, fishermen, windsurfers, boat traffic, and a harbor entrance. These unique conditions require specialized rescue capabilities.

We, the undersigned San Pedro families, residents, swimmers, beachgoers, youth program families, and community members, are asking Los Angeles City leaders to pause any proposed change in lifeguard service at Outer Cabrillo Beach until there is a full public safety review, public hearing, and transparent explanation to the community.

We are deeply concerned about any change that could affect ocean-rescue readiness, emergency response, staffing levels, lifeguard training standards, rescue equipment, coordination with fire/EMS, and the level of protection currently expected by the community.

Our concern is with any service change that has not been fully explained, publicly reviewed, and proven to provide equal or better protection for the public.

Before any lifeguard takeover, contract change, staffing change, or operational change occurs at Outer Cabrillo Beach, we are asking city leaders to provide the community with:

-A written public safety review comparing current and proposed lifeguard service.
-A clear explanation of ocean-rescue qualifications and training standards.
-A staffing plan for busy weekends, summer crowds, junior lifeguard activities, holidays, and emergency conditions.
-A response-time and rescue-equipment comparison.
-Written emergency coordination protocols with fire, EMS, harbor, and county resources.
-A public meeting in San Pedro before any final decision.
-A commitment that any change must provide equal or greater public safety protection.
-San Pedro families deserve transparency. Our kids deserve protection. Our community deserves answers before any decision is made that could affect beach safety.

We are asking Councilmember Tim McOsker, LA City Recreation and Parks, and all responsible city leaders to stop any lifeguard service change at Outer Cabrillo Beach until the community receives a full public safety review and a public hearing + a full third party formal risk assessment that public safety will be equal or greater than currently provided for our local community.

Public safety must come before politics, budgets, or administrative convenience.

Sign if you agree:
Keep Outer Cabrillo Beach safe.
Protect our kids.
Protect our families.
Protect San Pedro.