Download the Pretrial Roadmap: 2022 Pretrial Roadmap: 2022 Navigating the Pretrial Debate & Bail Reform The pretrial space is an area of criminal justice that has long been debated. The stakes could be no higher when balancing the rights of victims and the safety of communities along with the presumptionRead More →
WISCONSIN CHRISTMAS PARADE MASSACRE THE RESULT OF A DECADE OF REFORM POLICIES November 24, 2021 The nation continues to reel from the shocking news out of Waukesha, Wisconsin of a man who drove his car into a crowd attending a Christmas parade, killing six and injuring more than 60 people. Read More →
Is Bail Reform Legislation Quietly Gaining Steam? Judges, Law Enforcement, and Local Officials Need to Engage Before it is Too Late Bail reform is happening in Ohio, even though for some reason no one seems to be watching. Perhaps other issues have risen to the top – vaccine mandates, theRead More →
Buckeye State Sheriff’s Association Executive Director Sounds Off on the Latest Round of Bail Reform Legislation in Ohio The Ohio legislature is poised to take another run at reforming the pretrial and bail system in Ohio with the introduction of Senate Bill 182 and House Bill 315. What does SB 182 and HBRead More →
Houston Prosecutor Kim Ogg Unloads on Bail Reform, Supported Legislative Move to Tighten Down on Release on Free Personal Bonds Continuing moves toward bail reform are still occurring, which are quite similar to Houston, Texas, where, in the name of the protecting the poor, hardened repeat criminals now slip throughRead More →
The coasts could not be more divergent right now on bail reform. Delaware Democrats, who enjoy a super-majority in the House of Representatives, passed Senate Bill 7, which requires cash-only bail to be posted a variety of serious offenses in order to be released. Governor John Carney immediately signed theRead More →
Legislators in Sacramento said for two years they wanted to end cash bail. In 2018, they ran into a roadblock of opposition so strong with Senate Bill 10 that the bill stalled out. Then, on a Friday in 2018, a completely new version of end cash bail appeared (a.k.a., aRead More →
Senate Bill 262, the Latest Bail Reform Legislation, Is Clearly Unconstitutional The California Senate’s power has increased so dramatically they now are able to usurp powers belonging to other branches of government without as much as an objection. We get it. If you cross the California legislature, you pay theRead More →
Delaware Legislation That Will Unconstitutionally Harm the Poor Moving in the Legislature Moving through the 2021 legislative session in Delaware is Senate Bill 7, which would require cash only bail in a laundry list of what are deemed severe crimes by the 14 democratic sponsors of the bill, including theRead More →
Senator Claims Law Enforcement “Mischaracterizing” His “Jail Population Management Tools” Legislation—New Amendment To “Fix” Bill Is Further Evidence Of Its Unconstitutionality Senator Pete Lee is steaming forward with his amendment to “fix” the fatally flawed legislation brought by the ACLU (Senate Bill 21-062), a bill to have the legislature intrude onRead More →
