The Contra Costa County Clerk-Recorder’s office is about to start looking for official prejudice in county property records.
The county announced Wednesday the launch of its initiative “Mapping Prejudice in Contra Costa County,” a community-driven initiative to identify and map racially restrictive covenants, clauses inserted into local property records to keep people who weren’t white from owning or occupying property.
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