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Meet the “Poster Children” for Bail Reform

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|Date: April 24, 2018
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Meet the “Poster Children” for Bail Reform

Bail Reform Advocates Unveil Website Highlighting Repeated Abuses by Agents of California’s Out-of-Contro ...

Bail Reform Advocates Unveil Website Highlighting Repeated Abuses by Agents of California’s Out-of-Control Money Bail Industry (From Press Release) - Bail Reform California, a coalition of organizatio ...

April 24, 2018
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Guest Commentary: California’s District Attorneys Must Work to End Money Bail

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|Date: April 12, 2018
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Guest Commentary: California’s District Attorneys Must Work to End Money Bail

By Jeff Adachi While the movement to reform California’s unconstitutional money bail system gains momentu ...

By Jeff Adachi While the movement to reform California’s unconstitutional money bail system gains momentum, it met resistance earlier this month from a familiar opponent. In an extraordinary court fil ...

April 12, 2018
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Federal Judge Orders Man Released After SF Courts Repeatedly Fail to Follow Bail Law

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|Date: March 16, 2018
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Federal Judge Orders Man Released After SF Courts Repeatedly Fail to Follow Bail Law

(From Press Release) - A federal judge this week ordered authorities to immediately free a homeless man f ...

(From Press Release) - A federal judge this week ordered authorities to immediately free a homeless man from jail after he was repeatedly denied a constitutionally adequate bail hearing in San Francis ...

March 16, 2018
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AG Will Not Appeal Humphrey Bail Decision

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|Date: February 21, 2018
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AG Will Not Appeal Humphrey Bail Decision

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced on Tuesday that his office will not appeal a state a ...

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced on Tuesday that his office will not appeal a state appellate court’s ruling in In re Kenneth Humphrey. Mr. Humphrey has been incarcerated since May ...

February 21, 2018
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Money Bail Survives in California because of the Myths Perpetuated by the For-Profit Bail Industry

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|Date: February 18, 2018
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Money Bail Survives in California because of the Myths Perpetuated by the For-Profit Bail Industry

By the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office Myth # 1: Most people who are in jail are there because the ...

By the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office Myth # 1: Most people who are in jail are there because they have been convicted of a crime. In California, 66 percent of people in county jails have not ...

February 18, 2018
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He Stole $5 and Cologne. Bail was Set at $350,000

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|Date: February 07, 2018
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He Stole $5 and Cologne. Bail was Set at $350,000

By Jeff Adachi and Chesa Boudin The case of a San Francisco senior citizen accused of stealing $5 and a b ...

By Jeff Adachi and Chesa Boudin The case of a San Francisco senior citizen accused of stealing $5 and a bottle of cologne from his neighbor reveals the obvious injustice of California’s bail system, a ...

February 07, 2018
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Court’s Game-Changing Decision on Bail Based on SF Man’s Case

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|Date: January 27, 2018
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Court’s Game-Changing Decision on Bail Based on SF Man’s Case

(From Press Release) - A case involving a San Francisco retiree jailed for allegedly stealing cologne has ...

(From Press Release) - A case involving a San Francisco retiree jailed for allegedly stealing cologne has sparked a legal decision that promises to transform California’s approach to bail, San Francis ...

January 27, 2018
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Big Corporations Make Millions by Selling People a Chance to Get Out of Jail

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|Date: January 17, 2018
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Big Corporations Make Millions by Selling People a Chance to Get Out of Jail

By Udi Ofer If you got arrested, could you come up with the bail needed to buy your immediate freedom? Fo ...

By Udi Ofer If you got arrested, could you come up with the bail needed to buy your immediate freedom? For most people, the answer is no. Even though those arrested haven’t been convicted of a crime, ...

January 17, 2018
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SF Public Defenders Stand Up to Money Bail

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|Date: October 27, 2017
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SF Public Defenders Stand Up to Money Bail

(From Press Release)—In response to a pair of major statewide developments in the fight to abolish money ...

(From Press Release)—In response to a pair of major statewide developments in the fight to abolish money bail, San Francisco public defenders will file challenges in every criminal case in which bail ...

October 27, 2017
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Chief Justice Workgroup Calls Money Bail “Unsafe and Unfair”

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|Date: October 26, 2017
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Chief Justice Workgroup Calls Money Bail “Unsafe and Unfair”

(From Press Release) - A workgroup established by Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye to study Californi ...

(From Press Release) - A workgroup established by Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye to study California’s bail system issued a slate of recommendations on Tuesday, saying money bail should be repla ...

October 26, 2017
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SF Man’s Case Challenges Money Bail

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|Date: September 23, 2017
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SF Man’s Case Challenges Money Bail

(From Press Release) - A San Francisco senior citizen is poised to strike a blow against the money bail s ...

(From Press Release) - A San Francisco senior citizen is poised to strike a blow against the money bail system, with the state appeals court ordering the California Attorney General to explain why the ...

September 23, 2017
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Governor Brown Commits to Bail Reform, but Not in 2017

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|Date: August 26, 2017
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Governor Brown Commits to Bail Reform, but Not in 2017

On Friday, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Senator Bob Hertzberg and Ass ...

On Friday, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Senator Bob Hertzberg and Assemblymember Rob Bonta announced a joint commitment to working together on reforms to California ...

August 26, 2017
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Key Changes Allow Bail Reform Legislation to Pass Assembly Public Safety Committee

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|Date: July 12, 2017
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Key Changes Allow Bail Reform Legislation to Pass Assembly Public Safety Committee

Sponsor pledges to make additional changes to address concerns about public safety, judicial discretion a ...

Sponsor pledges to make additional changes to address concerns about public safety, judicial discretion and cost as the bill moves forward (From Press Release) – The Assembly Public Safety Committee t ...

July 12, 2017
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No Justice No Pride: Coming Out Against Money Bail

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|Date: June 25, 2017
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No Justice No Pride: Coming Out Against Money Bail

By Charles Fredrick So here’s the T — as a community, we queer and trans folks are no strangers to crimin ...

By Charles Fredrick So here’s the T — as a community, we queer and trans folks are no strangers to criminalization and aggressive policing, be it by the actual police or society at large. Our very exi ...

June 25, 2017
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Bail Reform Fails in the Assembly

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|Date: June 02, 2017
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Bail Reform Fails in the Assembly

Advocates Vow to Double Down on Efforts to Reform California’s Money Bail System One of two California ba ...

Advocates Vow to Double Down on Efforts to Reform California’s Money Bail System One of two California bail reform measures (SB 10) advances despite lobbying campaign by for-profit bail insurance indu ...

June 02, 2017
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California Senate Approves Bail Reform Legislation

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|Date: June 01, 2017
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California Senate Approves Bail Reform Legislation

Bill would ensure California doesn’t jail people simply because they can’t afford bail; another identical ...

Bill would ensure California doesn’t jail people simply because they can’t afford bail; another identical bill is awaiting a floor vote in the Assembly (From Press Release)—Today, the California Senat ...

June 01, 2017
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California Bail Reform Legislation Gains Momentum

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|Date: May 27, 2017
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California Bail Reform Legislation Gains Momentum

Committees approve bills that help prevent people from being jailed simply because they can’t afford bail ...

Committees approve bills that help prevent people from being jailed simply because they can’t afford bail; bills now head to floor votes (From Press Release)—As momentum for bail reform in California ...

May 27, 2017
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Huge Insurance Corporation Out to Profit from Misery on Bail Bonds

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|Date: May 14, 2017
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Huge Insurance Corporation Out to Profit from Misery on Bail Bonds

By Margaret Dooley-Sammuli Eleven years ago, San Diego, California, resident Melodie Henderson was arrest ...

By Margaret Dooley-Sammuli Eleven years ago, San Diego, California, resident Melodie Henderson was arrested for assault after a minor altercation with a former coworker. Her bail was set at $50,000. T ...

May 14, 2017
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Insurance Corporations Created Exploitative $2 Billion Bail Industry

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|Date: May 12, 2017
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Insurance Corporations Created Exploitative $2 Billion Bail Industry

In California, bail insurance corporations’ impact and influence is exposed as the Legislature considers ...

In California, bail insurance corporations’ impact and influence is exposed as the Legislature considers reforms to the state’s unjust and costly money bail system (From press release) - On Thursday, ...

May 12, 2017
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Strong Push Now for Bail Reform in California

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|Date: April 11, 2017
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Strong Push Now for Bail Reform in California

Last fall, the Vanguard once again was ahead of the curve, hosting a discussion on bail reform. Phil Tel ...

Last fall, the Vanguard once again was ahead of the curve, hosting a discussion on bail reform. Phil Telfeyan discussed the lawsuit for bail reform filed in federal court by his group, Equal Justice ...

April 11, 2017
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