Title: Amends Money Bail Procedures
Title: Amends Money Bail Procedures
Vote to pass a bill that makes changes to the money bail system.
Requires all defendants to be taken before a magistrate without unnecessary delay (Sec. 4).
Authorizes the individual or entity in charge of a jail to approve and sign a pretrial release order without the collection of money bail (Sec. 8).
Requires the Department of Corrections to conduct a risk assessment of individuals before they are released without bail (Sec. 8).
Prohibits defendants in violent felony cases from being released from jail before seeing a judge or magistrate (Sec. 8).
Establishes that if no pretrial report is available for an individual, they are to be released without bail under the terms of a pretrial agreement (Sec. 8).
Authorizes judges and magistrates to set money bail for individuals who they reasonably believe will not likely appear in court as required (Sec. 8).
Prohibits judges from setting bail that results in detention due to an individual’s inability to pay bail (Sec. 14).
Authorizes prosecuting attorneys to file a motion for pretrial detention if (Sec. 16):
The defendant is charged with a capital crime;
The defendant is charged with a violent felony;
Any relevant history corresponds to a likely result of bodily harm to others; or
There is no set of conditions that would reasonably assure the safety of the threatened individual.
Requires each county to establish a pretrial services agency (Sec. 27).
Prohibits pretrial risk assessments from factoring into their reports a defendant’s race, national origin, immigration status, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or prior criminal history (Sec. 29).
Title: Amends Money Bail Procedures