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 →
“The following op-ed was originally published on January 16 in the Los Angeles/San Francisco Daily Journal.” While the topic of bail reform is not new, the debate is rapidly changing. There is continued movement across the country to implement no-money bail systems. This year, at least a dozen legislatures willRead More →
New study issued by law professor proves that the Kentucky’s Pretrial Release Program for those criminally charged is completely failing despite repeated attempts to fix it. by Jeff Clayton, Executive Director Kentucky’s pretrial services program, which costs the state around $12 million annually, is the only statewide pretrial program inRead More →
Despite Nevada Governor Sandoval vetoing legislation to implement the pretrial “risk assessment” statewide because it was “unproven” with “no conclusive evidence pretrial risk tools will work” – Justice Hardesty moved forward with the Nevada Reno-Model…now a proven failure. by Jeff Clayton, Executive Director, American Bail Coalition If you Google howRead More →
University of Utah Law Professor Shima Baughman’s research on bail reform consists of nothing more than beating up an oversized straw-man and serving up naive solutions that have failed for two generations. by Jeff Clayton, Executive Director, American Bail Coalition The University of Utah is apparently quite proud of itsRead More →
