In this year’s election, incumbent Long Beach City Auditor Laura Doud is facing a challenge from longtime certified public accountant Dan Miles.

Whoever wins will be responsible for independently investigating and assessing how city departments are performing their duties.

On Tuesday, April 26, Doud and Miles answered questions from the Long Beach Post reporters Jason Ruiz and Kelly Puente in the second of our debates leading up to the June 7 primary.

For more, be sure to visit lbpost.com/elections.

Jeremiah Dobruck is executive editor of the Long Beach Post where he oversees all day-to-day newsroom operations. In his time working as a journalist in Long Beach, he’s won numerous awards for his investigative reporting and editing. Before coming to the Post in 2018, he wrote for publications including the Press-Telegram, Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times. Reach him at [email protected] or @jeremiahdobruck on Twitter.