bail reform

The House Administration Committee advances a bipartisan bill to alter Delaware’s preventative detention system, but House leadership is asking more questions this time around.

The Delaware Constitution currently provides a right to bail for all types of crimes, but Senate Majority Leader Bryan Townsend wants to change that.

The House passed a Democrat-led bail reform measure, but the bill’s biggest critics were also Democrats.The bill calls for offenders charged with…

The bail reform bill that recently passed in the Senate now heads to the full House, but not without some debate. The legislation calls for offenders…

The state Senate passes bail reform aimed at those charged with some violent crimes and possessing firearms.The legislation would set mandatory bail for…

Delaware’s Supreme Court is creating a task force to consider reforming how bail gets set for people accused of domestic violence crimes. 2018 bail reform…

Bail funds across the country have seen a flood of donations and attention amid protests over police brutality and racial injustice. The First State now…

Some Republican state lawmakers are calling for a repeal of a law reforming Delaware’s cash bail, saying it makes the state less safe.It allows judges to…

One state lawmaker says he plans to push again to end the First State’s reliance on cash bail. This comes after a Smyrna women died in jail earlier this…