Equal Justice: It is Time for a Lesson in Bail Bonding
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.…
National Bail Reform Survey: Public Opposed to FREE Release
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…
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…
Bail Bond Agents: The Professional and the Philanthropic
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…
AIA’s Eric Granof Wins PBUS Individual of the Year Award
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…
Misguided Social Justice: DOJ Misses the Mark on Victim Advocacy
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…
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…