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 3
Understanding Bail Reform Research and Propaganda (Part 3 of 4): Harvard Kennedy School Report We are happy to share the third segment of our series on Bail Reform Research and Propaganda. We saw in the review of the last two reports from The Brennan Center…
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…
The Public Responds With an Emphatic “NO” to Cashless Bail
The Public States and Emphatic “NO” to Cashless Bail For years we have been hearing that the public favored bail reform. We were told that proponents had conducted surveys and polls proving, overwhelmingly, that the public wanted soft on crime policies. Legislators changed the law…
State of Bail in Florida Survey Results 2025
The AIA Surety team recently attended the Florida Bail Agents Association summer meeting in Orlando. As part of our sponsorship of the event, we conducted a brief survey of the state of bail in Florida. We would like to thank all the agents in attendance…
Bail in the Midwest with Eric Granof
AIA Surety’s Vice President of Corporate Communications, Eric Granof, appears on the Bail in the Midwest Podcast with Shane Rolf to talk about the dark money behind the bail reform and rogue prosecutor movements.
A Big California “Thank You”
AIA Surety would like to extend a big “Thank You” to all the members of the California Coalition that helped defeat SB562 this session. As you may know, this past legislative session the California legislature attempted to pass Senate Bill 562. This bill would have…
2025 Midyear Bail Profession Survey: and the Survey Says…
2025 Midyear Bail Profession Survey: And the Survey Says… More Than 70% of Agents Want More From Their Surety We would like to thank all the agents who took the time to take our mid-year state of the bail professional survey. The goal of the…