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Discussion historically and whether or not there has ever been a large or successful movement in this state towards the elimination of money bail . Now you are going stump me by starting off with an empirical question i cant answer. First im very honored to be here with plenty of officials. I have tenure so let me be blunt. We are speaking about building a system which we call mass incarceration. We have many of people who dont need to be locked up and that is to provide public safety. Thats one of the reasons i see bail as so critical. Its not a sexy topic. Its one of the reasons its language...

Discussion historically and whether or not there has ever been a large or successful movement in this state towards the elimination of money bail . Now you are going stump me by starting off with an empirical question i cant answer. First im very honored to be here with plenty of officials. I have tenure so let me be blunt. We are speaking about building a system which we call mass incarceration. We have many of people who dont need to be locked up and that is to provide public safety. Thats one of the reasons i see bail as so critical. Its not a sexy topic. Its one of the reasons its language...

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 companies. The bailing corporation is that what you are with . Yes. The california Bail Association has ...

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 want that person out of jail where they can continue to flourish in their society. The issue of well ...

Walking people out of jail. Weve just come out of a difficult 45 years and that is budget years with a lot of social services being cut and really at the end of the day when you are talking about it and talking about housing and talking about employment, you are talking about counseling; you are talking about substance abuse. When there is not access to those services and you are trying to wrap it around. Come full circle to your question, how do you now relate to the Risk Assessment or the much more refine instrument . I totally agree that there has to be this instrument that assesses risk an...