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…
Every year the AIA Surety Team conducts a “State of Bail” survey amongst agents. Our goal? To try and better understand how agents are feeling about the industry and its future. This year we had an incredible response from agents. As of this morning, we…
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…
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): 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…
We recently conducted a state of the bail profession survey amongst bail agents to try and better understand agents’ general impression of the industry, as well as the things they felt were the most important things they wanted from their surety. While the results were…
Thank you to everyone who took our 2024 State of Bail Survey and congratulations to the winner of our drawing for $100 Visa Gift Card. To be honest, the results of the survey were a little surprising as they showed that the majority of bail…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF If the Bail Project Hates Cash Bail So Much, Why Do They Utilize it Every Day? Happy New Year everyone! Another year has ended, and we can all look towards 2025 with hope and confidence that the failed experiment,…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF When the data can’t speak for itself…the activists speak for it Is it just me or does it seem like every other day now there is an article touting the success of bail reform? In the past few of…
