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Yolo completes multi‑year AB 1466 project to redact historic racist deed covenants, publishes searchable map
Summary
Yolo County completed a four‑year project to digitize 2.3 million records, identify 1,172 documents containing discriminatory restrictive covenants affecting about 8,187 parcels, and implemented redactions under Assembly Bill 1466 with Stanford partnership and county counsel review; county created maps and a research portal preserving original records while removing offensive language from public displays.
Yolo County Recorder/Assessor Jesse Salinas reported March 3 that the county has completed a multi‑year effort to implement Assembly Bill 1466, the statewide law enabling counties to modify and redact historic racially discriminatory restrictive covenants in deed records.
What the county did: Salinas said the recorder’s office digitized and OCR’d roughly 2.3 million pages of historical deed and covenant material dating back to the mid‑19th century. The county used an algorithmic language search developed in partnership with…
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