For over two years legislators have been working on a bill to improve the bail system in California. Reform advocates, along with many other groups have been eagerly awaiting this legislation. But last-minute changes have made this a bad bill. Instead of solving a problem, it makes things worse. Now dozens of groups who originally supported the bill strongly oppose it

Stand up today and join the broad coalition of Californians rejecting this bill.

This bill would:

• Replace cash bail with actual time in jail
• Further punish minorities and low-income communities
• Give judges absolute decision-making power that could rely on prosecutor hearsay
• Allow local jurisdictions to write their own rules, creating an unbalanced and unclear statewide system
• Drive up the number of people in our jails, causing a drain on our resources
• Rely on a computer-based assessment to dictate someone’s freedom
• Deplete available funding for critical state programs with its $200 million price tag