California- Bail Reform Efforts Die As Session Ends




SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A parolee’s arrest in a killing after he’d been released without bail helped torpedo the California Legislature’s latest attempt to reform the cash bail system for this year, the bill’s author said Thursday.

Democratic Sen. Bob Hertzberg unsuccessfully tried several variations of a new measure after voters in November defeated a law what would have ended cash bail in favor of risk assessments.

His initial bill cleared the Senate but ran into opposition in the more conservative Assembly ahead of Friday’s legislative deadline, although Democrats control the needed two-thirds majorities in both chambers.

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