California Reparations Task Force Recommends Ending Cash Bail and Reducing Prosecution of Low-Level Crimes.
California's reparations task force has recommended the state to end cash bail and the prosecution of low-level crimes as part of its campaign to make amends for slavery and anti-Black racism. The task force also calls for the legislature to create a framework for compensating people held before trials who were later acquitted or exonerated. Additionally, the committee outlines what it describes as "overpolicing" of Black Americans before calling for California to stop prosecuting low-level crimes. The recommendations are part of an effort by the task force to remedy what the panel describes as an "unjust legal system" toward Black Californians.