Oklahoma Bail Reform: Where the Lies Come Sweeping Down the Plain
For those of you who may have missed it, there was a judiciary interim committee hearing in Oklahoma this week regarding bail reform. The agenda was pretty much what you would expect for a meeting of this kind. There were about a dozen speakers from…
AIA Hires Long-Time Industry Veteran, Bruce Biel
AIA is pleased to announce the hiring of long-time industry veteran, Bruce Biel. Based in Wallingford, Connecticut, Bruce will be working in AIA’s Agent Services Group, providing insight and guidance to agents across the country. Bruce has close to 25 years’ experience on both the…
ACLU…Where are You?
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF Typically, when I write bail reform related blogs, I like to focus on the victim side of the issue. Not just because it is the right thing to do, but it just seems that no one is concerned about…
Bail Reform and Risk Assessments: Trusting Public Safety to a Roll of the Dice
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF Last week, California’s Judicial Council agreed to pay $70 million for the world’s largest Magic 8 Ball. We aren’t sure of the actual dimensions of the giant 1970’s popular prognosticating pool ball, but we are told it is going…
Consumers Don’t Want to Eliminate Cash Bail
Last month a survey was conducted by a media outlet out of Illinois asking consumers if they thought that cash bail should be eliminated. Surprising to some but not to us, consumers voted almost 2 to 1 against the idea of eliminating cash bail for…
30 Angry Activists
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF This past week I attended the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors bail reform committee meeting in downtown Los Angeles. The meeting was designed to provide an update on LA County’s bail reform efforts and allow the public to…
Bail Reform: The Will of the Few
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF I know that it has been a while since my last blog post, but to be honest, I have been struggling with what to write about. This whole bail reform movement has got me so confused and frustrated that…
Senate Bill 10: Garbage by any Other Name Would Smell as Rotten
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF As many of you know by now, Governor Brown and the California Legislature sold out public safety and turned their backs on crime victims last month with the passing and signing of Senate Bill 10 back in August. This…
Bail Reform: California’s Dangerous Game
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF August 20, 2018 will in my memory be forever known as the most dangerous day in America. And the amazing thing about that is that 99.9% of people in this country have no idea why. On this day, in…
Bail Reform Hypocrisy: Your Money Bad…Our Money Good
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF If you have been following the bail reform movement, you know its proponents hate “money bail” more than anything. They call it unfair. They call it ineffective. They call it socially and economically unjust. They call it racist. That…