Government,
Criminal
Mar. 27, 2019
Bipartisan state bill aims to improve bail pretrial assessment
Members of the state Senate Public Safety Committee provided a display of bipartisanship in the money bail debate on Tuesday, unanimously passing a bill to improve pretrial assessment.
Members of the state Senate Public Safety Committee provided a display of bipartisanship in the money bail debate on Tuesday, unanimously passing a bill to improve pretrial assessment.
SB 36 is authored by Sen. Robert Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, an attorney who also authored SB 10. This is a controversial law signed last year to phase out cash bail in California and replace it with procedures to evaluate the risk a defendant will flee or...
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