Travis Hopkins has been working for the city since 2006, initially as a civil engineer, and had been serving as acting city manager since November.

Huntington Beach leaders on Tuesday went on the attack against a recent lawsuit that calls for eliminating some of the City Council’s most controversial library policies to restrict access to children’s books deemed inappropriate, saying the ACLU of Southern California is involved in “eroding away parental authority.”

The argument continues about whether Huntington Beach city leaders are censoring material that contains sexual content by removing it from the children's section of the library. "We are in a bit of uncharted territory given that no other library in the state of California or anywhere in this country has taken meaningful action to protect children from explicit material,

Huntington Beach's libraries have been a point of controversy since staunch conservatives took over city government and voted, in late 2023, to establish a

After over a year without a permanent top city official, the City Council appointed Travis Hopkins to the role.