Changes to Supreme Court rules weaken judiciary (excerpt from the Joplin Globe May 5 2019) Early this year, the Missouri Supreme Court announced its intent to make sweeping changes to the rules governing bail and pretrial detention throughout the state. The new standards are set to go into effect inRead More →
Commission hears report on jail programs (excerpt from the Silver City Daily Press (Silver City, NM) – April 17 2019 Two Grant County officials discussed the county’s rural justice system at Tuesday’s Grant County Commission work session, where commissioners also laid plans to involve the public more in future planningRead More →
NEW: Landmark Report on Criminal Risk Algorithms Demonstrates Why CO House Bill 1226 is Fatally Flawed On Friday, a landmark research report was issued by the Partnership on AI (Artificial Intelligence) on risk assessments in criminal justice according to an article on Venturebeat.com entitled Algorithms aren’t ready to automate pretrial bail hearings. The PartnershipRead More →
Partnership on AI: Algorithms aren’t ready to automate pretrial bail hearings (Excerpt from Venturebeat – April 26 2019) The Partnership on AI released its first-ever research report today, which declares algorithms now in use unfit to automate the pre-trial bail process or label some people as high risk and detain them, whileRead More →
Oklahoma Poised to Follow the Lead Of New Mexico’s Failed Bail Policies As Senate Bill 252 makes it way to the House Floor, the Oklahoma legislature is set to create chaos in the criminal justice system in Oklahoma should S.B. 252 pass. This legislation reforms how bail is regulated and performs Oklahoma. Read More →
Long Island lawmaker wants to tweak bail reforms to aid prosecutors in building cases against drug traffickers (excerpt from Daily News – April 25 2019) ALBANY — A Long Island Republican wants to rollback recently passed criminal justice reforms to ensure drug traffickers can’t escape justice. Assemblyman Ed Ra (R-Hempstead)Read More →
Texas: Thoughts On The Preventative Detention Constitutional Amendment, HJR 62 House Joint Resolution 62 proposes “a constitutional amendment authorizing the denial of bail to an accused person if necessary to ensure the person’s appearance in court and the safety of the community and the victim of the alleged offense.” AsRead More →
Bail bond preservation looks like a winner (excerpt from the Porterville Recorder – April 23 2019) It’s never easy to convince Californians they should reverse decisions made by the legislators they elect, as Republicans led by the failed gubernatorial candidate John Cox discovered last fall. Cox made his pet proposition,Read More →
Texas Public Policy Foundation‘s Criticism of Governor Abbott Misplaced—Dallas District Attorney’s New Policy Is a License to Steal Recall, Dallas District Attorney John Cruezot is not going to prosecute thefts under $750 for those necessary items, in addition to not prosecuting some weed and some other low-level offenses. Governor AbbotRead More →
Colorado Legislature Poised to Transfer the Power to Regulate Local Bail Policy to The State Court Administrator, Including Ordering Counties to Spend Budget Dollars on Pretrial Services Programs There’s been a lot of conversation about the so-called national “end cash bail” movement. In fact, the end cash bail movement startedRead More →
