The “Willful Non-Appearance” Trap: How Bail Reform Activists are Eroding Accountability In the push for bail reform and expanded pretrial release, some jurisdictions have quietly rewritten a core enforcement tool: redefining “failure to appear” (FTA) as “willful non-appearance.” What sounds like a minor semantic tweak—adding…
Accountability Matters: A Simple Text is Not Enough to Keep us Safe How Bail Agents Outperform Automated Texts in Getting Defendants to Court Lately, there have been a lot of articles being written on the value of a simple text reminder in the criminal justice…
Pretrial Risk Assessments (SB1618): Oklahoma, Just Say “NO” Here we go again, another state is falling for the false promise of risk assessments. This time it is Oklahoma. The first question you have to ask yourself is why? Think about it, if progressive California of…
Bail Reform Misinformation: Why Searching for the Truth on Bail Reform is Harder Than You Think Understanding Bail Reform Misinformation in the Digital Age The Challenge of Finding Truth Online About Bail Reform In a world of disinformation, misinformation and propaganda, it is extremely hard…
Common Sense Facts for the Cashless Bail Debate: Why Financially Secured Release Through a Bail Bond Works Better Than FREE Release Through Cashless Bail Have you ever noticed that the arguments against using bail bonds in the criminal justice system typically go against common sense?…
The Truth About Zero Bail: It Makes Zero Sense About 3 years ago, the District Attorney out of Yolo County, Jeff Reisig, conducted a simple research project. He wanted to know whether releasing criminal defendants on zero bail, also called cashless bail, was an effective…
Educating the Internet Together Bail Reform: Differentiating Between Truth and Propaganda Over the past decade or so, we have seen the online content of the bail reform activists increase substantially. From research studies to articles, these well-funded organizations have inundated the online marketplace with their…
The Hidden Dangers of Bail Reform How Pretrial Risk Assessments Decrease the Effectiveness of Cashless Bail and Pretrial Release Systems In the push for bail reform, pretrial risk assessments have emerged as a supposed solution to eliminate surety/cash bail systems and promote fairer pretrial release…
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…
Crime is and always will be something that impacts each and every one of us. No matter what side of the political spectrum that you sit on, we all want to live in a community that is safe and secure. That is why crime is…
