Senate Bill 10 is a bill that is after it’s time. by Jeff Clayton, Executive Director, American Bail Coalition Senate Bill 10 in California is what bail reform looked like three years ago.  Then, it was all the rage to use big data to tap-dance our way out of problems inRead More →

Gavel Comes Down in Tallahassee: Florida the Latest State to Reject Bail Reform and the No-Money Bail System As the gavel came down in Tallahassee at 4:17 pm on March 11, 2018, thus ending the 2018 session of the Florida legislature, Florida became the latest state to reject moving toRead More →

Will Florida follow the lead of Houston, Texas on bail reform?  Houston’s results paint a dire picture and should cause concern for lawmakers considering dangerous legislation. Bail reformers have somehow managed to convince the legislature that releasing more people on a “promise to appear” will create a new criminal utopia,Read More →

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Issues Ruling Dramatically Limiting Federal Judge’s Order in Houston Bail Case: Bail Schedules May Be Used And There is No Right to An “Affordable Bail” New Orleans, LA – For months, we have heard nothing but calls from the Plantiffs in theRead More →

West Virginia Bail Reform Legislation would Encourage the Use of Unproven Criminal Risk Algorithms and Delegate Power to the Courts to Adopt the No-Money Bail System. by Jeff Clayton, Executive Director, American Bail Coalition Conversations on bail reform all are all the new rage. That we can simply use computersRead More →

  One Year In…What We Do (or Don’t) Know about New Jersey Bail Reform #IfWeTweetItsSuccessItMustBeTrue by Jeff Clayton, Executive Director, American Bail Coalition The New Jersey Courts issued a report yesterday touting the success of the implementation of bail reform in New Jersey, a cooperative project of the State CourtsRead More →

Legislation Introduced to Restore Judicial Discretion to Set Bail in New Jersey and New Mexico, Reversing In-Part the Historic Bail Reforms Implemented Last Year As legislators around the country consider what bail-reform activists have called a tidal wave of bail reform, they might want to take a look at theRead More →

SJM 13, “Supreme Court—Rescind Bail Rules” clears first hurdle. Today, the New Mexico Senate Rules Committee considered SJM 13, “Supreme Court—Rescind Bail Rules,” which is an edict from the New Mexico legislature demanding that the Court repeal the existing rules and instead implement the will of the legislature and theRead More →

With a recent amendment to Senate Bill 484, the conversation of risk assessments and bail reform has come directly to Florida, and regardless of how one feels about bail reform in general, the Legislature should be aware of the many pitfalls of going in this direction. Using artificial intelligence inRead More →

The ACLU issued a report to the legislature on Friday entitled Beyond the Myths: Making Sense of the Crime Debate in New Mexico.  The report, designed to shelter the bail reform debate (championed by the ACLU) from the rising crime in New Mexico falls short in many areas — primarilyRead More →