Bipartisan bill seeks to reduce use of cash bail for release in Ohio
Both progressive and conservative groups have been calling for years for the reduction or elimination of cash bond.
Credit: WBNS-10TV / Chris Poturalski Author: Associated Press Updated: 1:38 PM EDT May 21, 2021
Cash bonds for criminal defendants couldn t exceed 25% of individuals monthly income and hearings for conditions of jail release would have to take place within 48 hours of an arrest, under a bill in the Ohio Senate meant to address growing calls to reduce the use of cash bond.
Personal recognizance bonds, which don t require cash bail, should also be the baseline for release as long as defendants are guaranteed to appear for future hearings and public safety isn t endangered, under the bill introduced earlier this week by GOP Sens. Rob McColley of Napoleon and Steve Huffman of Tipp City.
Bipartisan bills seek to overhaul Ohio’s bail system
Updated May 18, 2021;
Posted May 18, 2021
Twin bills to overhaul Ohio s bail system are being introduced with significant bipartisan support. (File photo)
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COLUMBUS, Ohio A bipartisan group of Ohio lawmakers unveiled plans Tuesday to reform the state’s bail system, arguing the current system unfairly decides who remains behind bars based on the amount of money they have.
Under twin bills introduced in the Ohio House and Senate, judges would be granted leeway to determine for themselves, within 24 hours of a defendant’s arrest, whether he or she should be released following their arrest.
Georgia adds 1 million, but growth slows from 1990s, 2000s
By JEFF AMYApril 26, 2021 GMT
ATLANTA (AP) Georgia gained a million new residents from 2010 to 2020 according to U.S. Census results released Monday, with the state still growing more rapidly than the nation. But for the first time since 1990, the state will not add a congressional seat, as the state’s population growth slowed noticeably from the breakneck pace of the previous two decades.
Georgia’s total population rose above 10.7 million from 9.7 million a decade ago. That 10.6% growth was the 12th fastest in the nation.
Percentage-wise, though, it was the slowest growing decade for Georgia since the 1940s, back when the state only had about 3 million residents, and pales behind the 26.4% increase in population the state saw in the 1990s and the 18.3% growth it saw in the 2000s. It’s the first time since the 1990 Census that Georgia won’t add a congressional seat, holding steady at 14. Before 1990, Georgia had
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COLUMBUS, Ohio The younger sister of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant called 911 a few weeks before Bryant’s fatal shooting by a Columbus police officer, saying the girls had been in a fight with each other and she wanted to leave their foster home, records show.
“I don’t want to be here no more,” the girl told a police dispatcher, adding that she’d been in the home more than a year.
The 911 call was one of more than a dozen placed from the Columbus foster home since 2017, most by Angela Moore the home’s foster mother seeking help with foster girls who had left without permission or didn’t return after being out, according to documents and 911 calls obtained by The Associated Press.