BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF As I sat around the dinner table last night with my family, we talked about things that I can only assume most families talk about. How the kids’ days were at school, what our plans were for the Super…
With everything going on in the bail industry across the country, now is the time to keep yourself informed. On January 1st, 2017, the entire state of New Jersey moved away from financially secured release and adopted more a D.C. style “detain” or “release for…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF This morning I arrived in the office early. I grabbed a cup of coffee and sat down to read through the long list of emails I had received over the last 8 hours. After deleting all the SEO solicitations,…
Over the past few years, the Pretrial Justice Institute has spent hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of taxpayer dollars and grants trying to discredit and eliminate the commercial bail industry. Their strategy has been pretty simple. Travel the country and educate judges and legislators…
This past week, I was sent a YouTube video from one of our agents. The video was titled, “The Bail Bonds Industry is Horrible.” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGKmXpEP1pc&sns=em). The video consisted of an interview with one of Equal Justice Under Law’s founders, Alec Karakatsanis. In the video, Mr.…
In another attempt to gauge the public’s opinion of the ongoing discussion around bail reform, we thought we would expand our last survey’s reach from just Texas to the entire country. In order to maintain an “apple to apple” comparison between the two surveys, we…
When most people think of a bail bondsman, they don’t picture a mother, and grandmother, who owns her own bail business and also has a charity that supports teen moms. What about a retired sheriff or a former teacher? The bail industry is full of…
The AIA team would like to congratulate our Vice President of Corporate Communications and Chief Marketing Officer, Eric Granof, for winning the PBUS Individual of the Year award. In his over 10 years of working with the bail bond industry, Eric has committed himself to…
Earlier this week the United States Department of Justice issued a letter to State and County Courts across the country. In this letter, the DOJ lays out what they refer to as 7 constitutional principles to protect individual’s rights as they relate to the enforcement…
