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California’s broken bail system punishes the poor
BY ROB BONTA
Special to The Bee
Boys and Men of Color Select Committee Hearing on “Evaluating California’s Bail System”
Hearing Agenda
9:30 – 11:30 a.m - Tuesday, July 5, 2016
1515 Clay Street (Auditorium), Oakland, CA 94612
Introduction and Welcome (15 minutes)
- Assemblymember Rob Bonta, Chair
- State Senator Loni Hancock
- Members of the Select Committee on the Status of Boys and Men of Color
Panel 1–Fundamentals of California’s Bail System (15 minutes)
- Eve Hershcopf, Judicial Council of California
- Professor David Ball, Santa Clara University School of Law
Panel 2–The Human and Economic Cost of Money Bail (30 minutes)
- Zachary Norris, Executive Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
- Jessica Bartholow, Policy Advocate, Western Center on Law and Poverty
- Margaret Dooley-Sammuli, Criminal Justice & Drug Policy Director, ACLU
- Melodie Henderson, personal testimony, San Diego
- John Jones, III, Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice
Panel 3–Money Bail and its Impact on the Criminal Justice System (15 minutes)
- Chuck Denton, Alameda County Office of the Public Defender
- George Gascón, San Francisco District Attorney
Questions and Answers and Public Comment (45 minutes)
