Latest News on Bail Reform
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Fault Lines: California’s Latest Bail Reform Proposal
One glaring issue with SB 562 is what’s missing: there’s no requirement that private attorneys refund legal retainers, no mandate that the state reimburse impound fees, lost wages, or other costs incurred after an arrest. Yet bail agents—who provide a legitimate, licensed, and regulated service—are expected to eat the cost when the state fails to file charges.
Mike Whitlock, American Surety Company
Former drug dealer calls New Hampshire’s bail reform law a ‘joke’.
A former drug dealer testified recently at the State House that criminals consider New Hampshire’s 2018 bail reform law to be a joke that makes it easier for them to commit crimes. In a hearing on the bail reform law, Jesus Lopez said people living in high-crime neighborhoods believe lawmakers no longer care to fix the problems in their communities.
WMUR9-CBS
NABA President,
Michelle Esquenazi for her interview with BNC (Black News Channel) discussing BAIL!
Impacts of Bail
Ben Dugan Works for CVS. His Job Is Battling a $45 Billion Crime Spree.
Ben Dugan sat in an unmarked sedan in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood one day last September waiting for the CVS to be robbed. He tracked a man entering the store and watched as the thief stuffed more than $1,000 of allergy medicine into a trash bag, walked out and did the same at two other nearby stores, before loading them into a waiting van, Mr. Dugan recalled.
Wall Street Journal
Amid calls to ‘defund the police,’ most Portland residents want police presence maintained or increased, poll finds
Nearly a year after “defund the police” became a racial justice rallying cry in Portland and across the U.S., a vast majority of Portlanders and those living in the metro area reject the call to diminish police presence in the city. Three-fourths of Portland-area residents say they do not want to see policing in the city dip below its current levels, with a plurality supporting an increase in cops, according to a recent poll commissioned by The Oregonian/OregonLive.
OregonLive.com
Repeat Court-Ordered Personal Recognizance Bonds: Listen to Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg Explain the Problem
As legislation in Missouri advances designed to make public safety the primary focus of bail considerations and to reduce the continued use of personal recognizance bonds for repeat and high risk offenders, it would benefit all involved in the process to listen to Harris County (Houston) Texas District Attorney Kim Ogg testify on legislation in Texas similar to that being advanced in Missouri, HB 946 and SB 487.
American Bail Coalition
Utah Latest State to Repeal Cash Bail Reform As Advocates Push for Bail Reform in Colorado
Utah Latest State to Repeal Cash Bail Reform As Advocates Push for Bail Reform in Colorado In 2020, Utah passed bail reform legislation to address what some lawmakers claimed was concern for indigent people stuck in jail who were unable to afford their bail. After a mere six months in …
American Bail Coalition
Soros-funded prosecutors put ‘social justice’ above law and order, analysts say
Self-styled progressive political activists who win election as district attorneys with financial support from wealthy donors have made “social justice” initiatives more important than public safety, legal analysts say. George Soros, the Hungarian American billionaire investor, stands out as the big donor behind a super PAC that helped elect district attorneys who have overseen a dramatic increase in crime.
The Daily Signal
