Overview
- City Transportation crews installed new Chicano Park Boulevard signs on Monday and coordinated with Caltrans to update freeway signage at the same time.
- Mayor Todd Gloria ordered city departments on March 20 to remove references to César Chávez and the City Council later voted to strip his name from the street and a city holiday.
- A New York Times investigation in March, based on interviews with more than 60 people, reported allegations that Chávez sexually assaulted female followers including minors and that Dolores Huerta was raped.
- Local groups in Barrio Logan including the Chicano Park Steering Committee and the Barrio Logan Community Planning Group backed the renaming to honor the park's 1970 origins and the neighborhood's cultural history.
- The sign change follows a wave of actions by public institutions that covered or removed Chávez statues and renamed facilities, and it leaves the allegations on the public record while Chávez cannot be criminally prosecuted because he died in 1993.