American Bail Coalition

Gov. Kelly Ayotte: Bail reform disaster ends today in NH https://zurl.co/ilffH

Tennessee, the Sixteenth State of the Union, on the verge of asking the voters to approve eliminating a core constitutional right. Jeff Clayton, executive director of the American Bail Coalition, said his organization lobbied House Speaker Cameron Sexton, R-Crossville, last year to eliminate the "85%" offenses or make the language more clear in the amendment. The push to change the wording ultimately did not advance in 2024 and the language was not changed when it was filed this year. Clayton has been among the most outspoken opponents of the measure, arguing it contradicts an expected presumption of innocence and similar measures have led to skyrocketing costs in states like New Jersey. "It’s not going to fix the crime problem in Tennessee, period," Clayton said. "I don’t think anyone has presented any evidence of that. I think throwing in 83 charges is what the Supreme Court would call a scattershot attempt at crime control versus a targeted approach, which is what we support." https://zurl.co/YjdAs

Sen. Tedisco Pushes for Changes to NY Bail Law After Animal Cruelty Case https://zurl.co/FXGUi

(TN) Stockard on the Stump: Sexton and bail bond industry headed for collision “A law is considered unconstitutionally vague if it is so unclear that people of common intelligence must guess at its meaning and differ as to its application” https://zurl.co/aeL57

Two constitutional amendments could make major changes to Tennessee's court system "There’s been no academic research that supports the use of preventative detention as a defective crime control policy, in fact there’s a litany of articles that suggest it doesn’t have an impact on crime control policies," said Jeffery Clayton with the American Bail Coalition https://zurl.co/yXOTJ

Granite State Governor Has Had Enough: Demands Repeal of 2018 Bail Law https://zurl.co/EueIf

Texas Public Safety Holy Trinity Moves Aggressively on Immigration and Bail Reform https://zurl.co/4DmtW

Officials plan bill to change Virginia’s 2021 bail reform “Violent crime is up over 20% from pre-pandemic years. While Fairfax County claims to be the ‘safest jurisdiction of its size in the country,’ the unnecessary, unjust suffering of the victims of these violent crimes necessitates that we walk back the 2021 bail changes.” https://zurl.co/T9F1M

Will Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings be the First Lawyer in a Generation to Defend Segregationist Strom Thurmond’s Preventative Detention Law before the U.S. Supreme Court? https://zurl.co/f7dan

Easy release in a broken system led to tragedy https://zurl.co/dCaDV