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Georgia should keep requiring cash bail for the added offenses in its 2024 bail law.
A 2024 Georgia law added about 30 offenses for which a defendant cannot be released without cash or property bail, and it limited charitable bail funds. Reversing it would let judges release people charged with those offenses without cash bail.
Keisha Lance Bottoms
That has everything to do with who has money to pay to get out. That doesn't have anything to do with rising crime. You're not letting felons sign cash bail bonds.
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