New Jersey Bail Reform
With everything going on in the bail industry across the country, now is the time to keep yourself informed. On January 1st, 2017, the entire state of New Jersey moved away from financially secured release and adopted more a D.C. style “detain” or “release for…
Veterans, School Children and Bail Reform, Oh My!
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF This morning I arrived in the office early. I grabbed a cup of coffee and sat down to read through the long list of emails I had received over the last 8 hours. After deleting all the SEO solicitations,…
Illinois Judge Writes a Thorough and Thoughtful Analysis of Bail Reform Movement
Over the past few years, the Pretrial Justice Institute has spent hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of taxpayer dollars and grants trying to discredit and eliminate the commercial bail industry. Their strategy has been pretty simple. Travel the country and educate judges and legislators…
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…