California state bar leaders will not act immediately to bar prosecutors from taking campaign money from law enforcement, choosing instead to work with lawmakers on related legislation.

The bar’s board of trustees on Friday voted to offer technical help to Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Oakland, as he crafts a promised bill that would force district attorneys who take police union contributions to recuse themselves from investigations and prosecutions of law enforcement officers.

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