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Karen Bass

Chair, Mayor of the City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles LA Metro Board of Directors

We identified Bass’ voice at 10 meetings across two bodies.

8 of 11transcribed meetings with their voice identified

Chairs the LA Metro Executive Management Committee

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Talk time, and Bass’ other bodies
Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Bass’ voice

10, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Bass’ first remark.

  1. Sep 24, 2026LA Metro Board of Directors5.6 min4:31
  2. Sep 17, 2026LA Metro Executive Management Committee13.2 min4:51
  3. Sep 16, 2026LA Metro Board of Directors7.6 min4:51
  4. Jul 23, 2026LA Metro Board of Directors32.7 min4:36
  5. May 28, 2026LA Metro Board of Directors6.3 min48:34
  6. Mar 26, 2026LA Metro Board of Directors7.9 min39:54
  7. Jan 22, 2026LA Metro Board of Directors6.4 min1:01:11
  8. Jan 14, 2026LA Metro Board of Directors4.7 min31:35
  9. Dec 4, 2025LA Metro Board of Directors0.9 min2:21:46
  10. Nov 20, 2025LA Metro Executive Management Committee0.4 min1:17:02
How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 410 council lines drawn, 352 right, 0 wrong, 1 unclear, 57 couldn’t be judged

A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Bass was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Karen Bass’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Bass said. For councils and their committees, of 410 lines drawn, 352 were right, 0 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 57. We have since removed the voices behind 110 of those lines (0 wrong, 1 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 300 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 268: all 268 right (90% lower bound 0.99). They couldn’t judge the other 32. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Bass or of Los Angeles alone.