PBT 1st Quarterly Meeting & Basic Continuing Education

The Professional Bondsmen of Texas is holding the 1st Quarterly meeting and offering basic Bail Continuing Education classes at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Austin, Texas. The meeting and courses will be held January 28-30th, 2010. For more information visit the PBT website  Read More →

Welcome New Marketing Consultants

AboutBail.com is proud to announce Kimberley Conner, Pam McDonough and Mindy Naumer as our newest Marketing Consultants, Amanda de Bock as the new Client Concierge and Nora Sneberger as the Senior Marketing Consultant. Each of these women brings a diverse background to the team, but are all here for the same reason: to help the bail agents, investigators and criminal attorneys we work with to be more successful. Meet the team: Nora Sneberger, Senior Marketing Consultant As a former prosecutor, public defender and attorney Nora has extensive experience... Read more

Lobby Group Sets Sights on Florida Pretrial Release

BROWARD, FL – Broward County’s pretrial release program has seen a few cutbacks recently. Everyone involved in the justice system knows that pretrial release is a highly political issue. Bondsmen claim that the system is unsafe and costs them business. Defense lawyers claim that pretrial release helps those clients who cannot afford to pay a bondsman 10% of their bond. In Broward County, bondsmen lobbyists advocated for a county ordinance. That ordinance limits the pretrial program. While advocates of pretrial release note that the program saves... Read more

Spotlight on Stacey Duvall

Stacey Duval, Laguna Beach California Bail Agent How did you get started in the bail industry? It’s a family thing – women only.  All the women on my Mom’s side of the family own a bail agency. My mom Robbin Herren, my aunt Glenda Stroobant (who was the bail pioneer in our family), my grandmother Alma Gwinn (now happily retired), my cousins Crista Briggs & Michelle Armenta, and now the most recent addition, my younger sister Sandra Polk have all been involved in the industry.  We have three generations of women bail bondsmen! I was... Read more

‘Sex Or Jail’: Bail Bondsman Charged With Battery

ORLANDO, FL - Allen Burns was released on a $10,000 bond after being charged with sexual battery. Authorities reported that Burns threatened a 20-year-old mother that if she did not sleep with him, she would be thrown back in jail. After being released on a theft charge in November, the woman told investigators she had a small child and could not be sent back to jail. Burns allegedly intimidated the woman by saying, “It’s either this, or you go back to jail.” Read the full article.  Read More →

Inmates Who Can’t Make Bail Face Stark Options

NEW YORK, NY – Bail not only means that defendants can get out of jail while awaiting court dates, but experts and studies agree that bail offers more choices for defendants as well. Defendants out on bail are more likely to get smaller sentences, are more likely to plead not guilty and are more likely to protest unfair treatment at the hands of arresting officers. Defendants who cannot get out on bail are more likely to plead guilty – even if they are innocent – and more likely to get longer sentences, no matter what plea they enter. Read... Read more

Bondsmen Take to the Airwaves

Fredericksburg, VA – Bondsmen worried about the state of the bail bond industry in Virginia has formed a group called Virginians for the Preservation of Bail. The group is now taking to radio airwaves, running radio spots and ads on radio stations as the General Assembly session sits. Virginians for the Preservation of Bail is led by bondsman Bill Weisband, who is worried about the growing power of pretrial release programs in the state – programs he claims cost him and other bondsmen business. Read the full article.  Read More →

How Overcrowded are US Jails?

LUBBOCK, TX - Lubbock, Texas is a city of a quarter million, and there are about twelve bail bond businesses operating here. National studies and the Justice Department have published reports suggesting that those defendants in jails in Lubbock and across the country who have money have far more options than those who do not. Those who have money can hire private attorneys and pay their full bail amounts to get out of jail almost at once. Those who have some money can often pay a bail bondsman 10% of the bail amount to get out of jail until their... Read more

FSAA Winter Meeting

The Florida Surety Agents Association is hosting their winter meeting at Orlando’s Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando, Florida. The event will be held January 17 - 19, 2010. For more information visit the FSAA website.  Read More →

Using Social Media to Build Your Bail Business

Are you promoting your business on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter or LinkedIn? If your company is not represented online, you are missing opportunities to market your business, share information with other bail agents, build great connections, keep track of clients and keep your fingers on the pulse of the industry. In 2009 social media grew at exponential rates. People communicated online more than ever and those trends are expected to continue in 2010. With 350 million users, Facebook is the second most visited website on the web, MySpace just added... Read more

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