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Catherine mccrack in, the organization on juvenile and criminal justice has done extensive reach on the bail system and pretrial detention. Is the system currently working would you say and what reforms would you support . Thank you for having m e here today. The center for criminal justice has released a report last year that did examine the bail industry particularly around the lobbying effort. I want to talk a little bit about the criticisms of the commercial bail industry that has been reocc...

Catherine mccrack in, the organization on juvenile and criminal justice has done extensive reach on the bail system and pretrial detention. Is the system currently working would you say and what reforms would you support . Thank you for having m e here today. The center for criminal justice has released a report last year that did examine the bail industry particularly around the lobbying effort. I want to talk a little bit about the criticisms of the commercial bail industry that has been reocc...

Licenses as they are traded on the open market. The abc act does allow those licenses to be traded on the open market without any price controls on our part. But, what is the future hold there . Its hard to say. I can say at this point that the department itself is not making any specific efforts toward bringing new licenses in, but we are certainly not bringing any barriers to it and when it really comes down to it, we would be very supportive of a broad based legislative effort to work the ent...

Some associations and there is some lobbying for the californias association. Do you know how much your organization spends on lobbying . We dont even have a paid lobbyist. But the sure ityty company there is a guess. I have no idea what their figure would be. I understand that you are also amen of American Bail Coalition . Its a representative of the assurity companies. Those are the big guys that we get our paper to write with. Im not a member of the american coalition. Thats for assurity comp...

Their lobbyist. This is what it looks like. It not the chicos bail bonds. We are mom and pop and the majority of our agencies are owned by women. Im eye i want to have the opportunity to say what we mean. Legislator coming this year is what we are looking at at high cost of bail. Yes it has to be locally controlled. We have nothing to do with this. Im from Los Angeles County and let me tell you bail schedules are very high out there. But we work with the families, coworkers, and employers that w...

For 4 decades and former mistake mayor of carson california and helen for the juvenile and criminal Justice System and currently on the and ralph on the commission of San Francisco and works closely with the Sheriffs Department which now leads the program for violent offenders. San francisco, he has over 3 decades of experience in Law Enforcement including his former role as chief of police in San Francisco. Hes been a critic of current models in the criminal Justice System that rely too heavily...

And commercial bail system is one of the hottest topics. The institute of policies has called the bail system a failed policy that leads to excessive incarceration and mostly of pretrial detainees who cannot afford to buy their freedom. Time and time again commercial bail has proven itself to most effective with those released on assurity bonds with 60 percent less likely to become fugitives. Let me introduce the panel, der a dwight is with the association, she owns carson bail bonds and in the ...

Know there are 11 members but only two supervisors have played on stage in San Francisco in rock bands. So your question no. The are who are the the two supervisors who have been in bands and played on stage. Two supervisors out of 11. We just need their names. Thanks. All right. Next, so we invited the head of the abc here tonight. Jacob apple smith but he wasnt able to make it. Instead we have chrissal brek who is going to make a statement for you guys, if you have questions we are going to op...

And those confined to jail are the ones is that need to be there. When they come, they have to release inmates and thats not a systemic way. Some counties release first ones in and out. The criticism about the bail industry that it doesnt really address well, it affects individuals who are not able to post bail, are not afforded the same due process as other individuals that can affect their experiences through their trials. So, for example, individuals who are unable to post jail or are in cust...

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