SB 252 (2023)

Requires a hearing before a judge before granting bail to a person who is arrested for a violent or sexual offense. This bill also requires a person to be held without bail for violent and sexual offenses if there is "clear and convincing evidence" of a danger to public safety.

The House rewrote the bill, incorporating a new plan for magistrates that will assist in the bail process. 

The rewritten bill also requires a court or magistrate to deny bail if there is "substantial evidence to believe that release of the person is a danger to that person and the public." This is a lower standard of proof than is currently required to hold an offender without bail. If a violent or sexual offender is arrested again while out on bail, that is considered proof they are a danger to the public. 

This bill then regulates electronic monitoring.

Lastly, this bill sends money to the Department of Safety to implement a bail tracking system.