District attorneys in some Bay Area counties, including San Francisco, are struggling to comply with a new state law requiring prosecutors to make charging decisions without viewing information about suspects’ races.
In most cases, a lack of funding and difficulties implementing new technologies were at the root of their problems, prosecutors said.
The measure, which took effect Jan. 1, mandates a practice known as “race-blind” charging. District attorneys’ offices must now redact information that could identify a person’s race from police reports before making a charging decision, through either autonomous technology or an employee who isn’t otherwise involved in the case…