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They Can't Win the Argument, So They're Changing the Dictionary
From redefining "bail" as any form of release to rebranding licensed bail agents an "industry," the movement to eliminate commercial bail has spent thirty years rewriting the vocabulary of pretrial justice — and courts are starting to adopt the new definitions.
NABA Staff Writer·Aug 7, 2026
Opinion
The Fix Is In: How a California Court Ruling Is Being Used to Dismantle the Bail System — And What Utah's Experience Tells Us About What Comes Next
A unanimous California Supreme Court ruling in In re Kowalczyk narrows when bail can be denied and requires ability-to-pay assessments — reopening a pipeline into government-supervised pretrial release that Utah's own court records show operating with no financial accountability when defendants fail to appear.
NABA Staff Writer·Aug 6, 2026