The Top 5 Bail Stories of 2025
The Top 5 Bail Stories of 2025 As we approach the end of another trip around the sun, we always like to look back on the year and assess how we did. While 2025 was an up and down year for the bail profession, overall,…
Understanding Bail Reform Research and Propaganda: Extra Credit
Understanding Bail Reform Research and Propaganda (Extra Credit): SJ Quinney College of Law, University of Utah This next study examines the outcome of the Bail Reform Act of 2017 passing in Illinois. This piece of legislation eliminated the use of any sort of financially secured…
Understanding Bail Reform Research and Propaganda: Part 4
Understanding Bail Reform Research and Propaganda (Part 4 of 4): Harry Frank Guggenheim We have now gone through three studies that have all claimed that bail reform is not connected to any rise in crime. In fact, each of the studies have made the claim…
Understanding Bail Reform Research and Propaganda: Part 2
Understanding Bail Reform Research and Propaganda (Part 2 of 4): The Bail Project Tulsa, Oklahoma Study As we close out October and head into November, “Cashless Bail” is still making headlines across the country. Ever since President Trump’s August 25th executive order, bail reform has…
Texas Criminal Justice: Public Opinion Doesn’t Support Bail Reform Movement
One thing that you will not hear public sector pretrial advocates discuss is what the public thinks of bail reform. Because no matter how much they believe that there is a need to abolish commercial bail and reform the so called “injustice” of requiring criminal…
Determining the Constitutionality of Commercial Bail: An Appealing Fight
As the bail reform advocacy group, Equal Justice Under Law, continues to move across the country searching for ways to challenge the constitutionality of bail schedules with the ultimate goal of eliminating monetary bail, they may have hit a substantial roadblock. According to a press…
Bail Education: Working with Bail Bondsmen Across the Country
AIA Insight – June 2016 Over the past few weeks, the AIA team has been extremely busy talking with bail agents across the country. AIA’s Vice President of Corporate Communications, Eric Granof, has been at both the South Carolina Bail Agents Association and the Oklahoma…
American Bail Coalition Statement on Latest Equal Justice Lawsuit in Sacramento
Last week the American Bail Coalition posted a statement on the latest lawsuit filed by the pretrial activist group Equal Justice Under Law. This time the group filed the lawsuit in California’s state capital, Sacramento. Unlike the previous lawsuit filed in San Francisco, this lawsuit names…
Bail Agents Show Solidarity in San Francisco – Update on Buffin v. San Francisco
Below is a statement from Jeff Clayton, Policy Director for the American Bail Coalition, on the latest results of the US District Court hearing on Buffin v. San Francisco. January 26, 2016 Statement on Motions Hearing, Buffin Today, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the United…
American Bail Coalition Takes Active Role in San Francisco And Beyond
AMERICAN BAIL COALITION TAKES AN ACTIVE ROLE IN SAN FRANCISCO AND BEYOND DEFENDING THE AMERICAN BAIL SYSTEM & SURETY BAIL AGAINST BASELESS ATTACKS Recently, the Associated Press (AP) released a news piece regarding a lawsuit filed several weeks ago in federal court against the State…