Alameda County Reparations Commission, Action Report (Draft, April 2026)

The commission’s April draft. It is not the version the Board voted on. Corrected 2026-10-15: this record once said the Board accepted this draft on 30 June 2026. The county’s minutes and the County Librarian’s letter, read 16 September 2026, show the Board received the June 2026 report (Version 2), which carries 44 recommendations; this April draft carries 43.

WR does not quote this document, and the reason is on its own pages. Every one of its 180 pages is stamped “DRAFT — DO NOT CITE.” No final, unstamped version has been published. The Commission’s own site still offers only a file dated 30 April 2026, still marked draft, even after the Board’s 30 June vote on the June version. A publication built on reading documents honestly does not quote a document that asks not to be quoted.

Tier C for that reason alone, not for lack of substance. The report is not empty, and any account calling it empty is wrong: it carries 43 approved recommendations, among them direct compensation for victims of unjust property takings and a right-to-return program. The commission named the remedy. What happened to the remedy afterward is a separate question, and it belongs to the Board, not to this document.

Recorded here so the docket is honest about what exists, what it says, and why we did not lean on it.