Supervisors, prosecutors and public defenders outline limited local effects but large administrative work from Prop 47

Supervisor Malia Cohen convened a multi-agency hearing to assess local effects of Proposition 47 after it passed statewide last November. "Prop 47 was passed last November by the voters," Cohen told the Government Audit and Oversight Committee, framing the session around questions of resentencing, operational change and how any savings should be reinvested locally.

A District Attorney's Office representative said the office identified roughly 900 potentially eligible county cases and has been reviewing files with other agencies. "We have approximately 900 cases that are potentially eligible," the DA's representative said, adding that about 300 are drug cases and about 600 fall into other categories. He said 375 cases previously charged as felonies had already been reduced to misdemeanors and four San Francisco residents in state prison were eligible for…