The Legislature will hold a hearing next month to investigate the recent use of police force in response to protests at the CSU Chancellor’s Office as well as several University of California campuses.

The joint hearing of the Assembly Higher Education Committee and Senate Education Committee will be held Wednesday, December 14, Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez announced last week.

"Like most Californians, I have been absolutely appalled at some of the incidents that have taken place in recent days against peaceful protestors," Pérez said in a statement. "Students, parents and the public deserve to have answers to the myriad of troubling questions these incidents have raised."

Police at CSU Headquarters in Long Beach used pepper spray on students, staff and faculty at a Trustees’ meeting earlier this month.

That episode came on the heels of police at UC Berkeley who jabbed protesters with batons two weeks ago, as well as video footage of police pepper-spraying seated protesters at UC Davis last week, which has been watched by millions of people worldwide.

UC leaders responded by announcing they'll conduct a "thorough examination of police procedures, protocols and training," and the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California is investigating the incidents.

In contrast, CSU Chancellor Charles Reed has expressed no regrets about incidents that occurred at the last Board of Trustees’ meeting and has failed to ask for a similar investigation at the CSU.