profits from poor minority communities. Prop. 25 would have replaced the cash bail system with an AI-based risk assessment algorithm that allows individuals categorized as low- or medium-risk to leave jail after 36 hours, but keeps individuals deemed high risk in jail. The ballot proposal included commitments to regularly demonstrate that the risk assessment tool minimized implicit bias.
But opponents were skeptical of these claims. For instance, Alice Huffman, the president of the NAACP's California State Conference, of the ballot measure: "Computer models may be good for recommending songs and movies, but using these profiling methods to decide who gets released from jail or who gets a loan has been proven to hurt communities of color." The fact that Prop.