The California reparations task force has voted in favor of recommendations for a formal apology for the state's role in perpetuating a legacy of slavery and discrimination that has thwarted black residents from living freely for decades. The nine-member committee, which first convened nearly two years ago, approved a detailed account of historical discrimination against Black Californians and has recommended creating a new agency to provide services to descendants of enslaved people to calculate what the state owes them in compensation. The draft recommendation also includes a censure of the gravest barbarities carried out on behalf of the state, such as former Governor Peter Hardeman Burnett's encouragement of laws to exclude Black people from California. The recommendations range from tailored calculations of what the state owes residents for decades of harms such as over-policing and housing discrimination. Though the task force didn't specify what compensation would look like, it approved a section of the draft report stating reparations should include "cash or its equivalent."