Archive: Pretrial Release

  • Citizens’ Right to Know: Pretrial Release Act March 15, 2013

    Citizens’ Right to Know: Pretrial Release Act Summary This Act demands that pretrial service agencies reveal their budgets and staffing, number and kind of release recommendations made, number of defendants released and under what type of bond, number of times [...]

  • Anti-Crime (Secured Release) Act March 15, 2013

    Anti-Crime (Secured Release) Act   Summary This Act requires that persons arrested for an offense other than a misdemeanor to be released by “secured release”, which is by cash deposit, secured bail bond, or real property. Persons may only be [...]

  • Bail Bond Expiration Act March 15, 2013

    Bail Bond Expiration Act Summary This act would establish that a bail bond expires thirty-six months after it is posted if the bond has not been declared forfeited in the interim. Model Legislation Section 1. {Title}  This Act may be cited [...]

  • Bail Forfeiture Relief and Remission Act March 15, 2013

    Bail Forfeiture Relief and Remission Act Summary This Act grants a bail agent a remission period to recover a fugitive that has skipped bail, even after the time deadline for a bail agent to recover that person has passed and [...]

  • Alternative Method of Court Appearances Act March 15, 2013

    Alternative Method of Court Appearances Act Summary This bill would designate certain crimes as crimes with bail restrictions. Those crimes would include offenses such as murder, kidnapping, burglary, arson, drug-related crimes, racketeering and robbery. Under the bill, persons charged with [...]

  • Bail Fugitive Recovery Persons Act March 15, 2013

    Bail Fugitive Recovery Persons Act Summary This Act will create standards of operation for those individuals who act as a bail recovery agent. Model Legislation Section 1. {Short Title} The article shall be known as the Bail Fugitive Recovery Persons [...]

  • Bail Forfeiture Notification Act March 15, 2013

    Bail Forfeiture Notification Act Summary This act requires the court to send prompt notice of bail forfeiture to the surety, depositor of money, and bail agent posting the bond.   Model Legislation Section 1: {Notification of Bail Forfeiture} (A) Upon a [...]

  • Conditional Early Release Bond Act March 15, 2013

    Conditional Early Release Bond Act Summary This Act would create a means whereby a State can, after conviction, release a person. The Act would also establish how conditions on the release may be set and how the private sector may [...]

  • Crimes with Bail Restrictions Act March 15, 2013

    Crimes with Bail Restrictions Act Summary The purpose of this act is to enhance public safety. The Bureau of Justice Statistics has shown that defendants released on unsecured bonds were the most likely not to show and thus end up [...]

  • Bailable Offenses Act March 15, 2013

    Bailable Offenses Act  Summary Provides procedures for determining the citizenship of arrestees and creates additional circumstances under which the accused may be detained without bail. Model Legislation {Title, enacting clause, etc.} Section 1. {Short Title.} This Act may be cited [...]