The task force recommends more than 100 programs or policies that do not involve direct cash payments. (They can be found on pages 19-24 of the interim report.) The policy recommendations generally fall under these categories: justice, voting, education, health, business or housing. 

Some policy recommendations would have a defined cost while others, such as the recommendation that California apologize for slavery and systemic injustices, would not have a budgetary impact. 

Other recommendations to the state:

• Delete language from California’s Constitution permitting involuntary servitude as punishment for crime

• Make it easier to hold law enforcement (including correctional officers) accountable for unlawful harassment and violence

• Consider legislation to prevent the dilution Black votes via redistricting

• Let people with felony convictions serve on juries and prohibit judges and attorneys from excluding jurors for having a criminal record.

• Identify and eliminate anti-Black housing policies and practices.

• Repeal Article 34 of the California Constitution, which requires public votes before “low-rent housing projects” can be developed, constructed, or acquired by public entities.

• Identify and eliminate racial bias in standardized tests, including statewide K-12 proficiency assessments, undergraduate and postgraduate assessments and professional career exams