Texas: El Paso County Creates a Risk Assessment Shred-a-Thon Under Threat of Litigation as Momentum Against Pretrial Risk Assessment Continues to Grow On October 1, 2018, El Paso County implemented its new bail policy. El Paso’s new policy is based on the use of a risk assessment tool and theRead More →
AB 125 Would Implement the New Mexico Bail System in Nevada Eliminating money bail and going to the system of risk-based preventative detention has been the trend over the last few years. Unfortunately, reformers aren’t mentioning that the solution, the system of risk-based preventative detention, has been unraveling at itsRead More →
Another Wave of Opposition Against Pretrial Risk Assessments as the Texas Legislature Steams Forward House Bill 2020 is making its way through the legislature. We certainly support all efforts to increase the information judges have in making decisions and the other important changes that the bill would make to theRead 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Bail Reform Goes Off the Rails in Dallas and Harris County, Texas Rich people can afford their bail and poor people can’t—the holy grail of bail slogans, jingles, catchphrases, watchwords, and mantras—is the heart of how criminal justice public policy is being designed these days. Even as scholarly research debunksRead More →
Colorado House Bill 19-1226 will create statewide pretrial services and empower the judicial branch to implement pretrial risk assessment algorithms statewide. Incidentally, it won’t be cheap to do that. On March 8, 2019, however, at the Kansas Judicial Center in Topeka, Kansas, on the topic of bail reform the ACLURead More →
