Assembly proposes rolling back bail reform ahead of budget deadline: report
Under the proposed changes, judges would no longer have to give criminal defendants the “least restrictive” conditions ahead of their trials – at least for some crimes –“If true, it’s a very big deal: Heastie is telling the progressives to be quiet while he changes a law they fought for,” political consultant Hank Sheinkopf said.
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is reportedly more willing to change bail reform than he has let on in public remarks.But another source privy inside the Assembly said Heastie told his Democratic supermajority that any progress on bail could only be measured in “inches” days afterhis reps walked out of a meeting with Hochul administration officials over bail last weekend.
“We’re not staying silent anymore,” Assemblywoman Latrice Walker , a leading proponent of bail reform, said at the Capitol last week while vowing to defend current laws, “The gloves are off.”“I feel the need to clarify that the Assembly Majority opposes any changes to weaken or upend the bail laws and subject more New Yorkers to the dangers of pre-trail jailing,” Walker said.
“As I’ve always said, you’re not going to incarcerate people into crime dropping,” Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie told reporters in March. “Gov. Hochul’s Executive Budget makes transformative investments to make New York more affordable, more livable and safer, and she continues to work with the legislature to deliver a final budget that meets the needs of all New Yorkers,” Hochul spokeswoman Hazel Crampton-Hays said Wednesday of the $227 billion proposed budget she unveiled Feb. 1.
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