http://www.collateralmag.com A bail bond industry publication Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:18:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How to locate fugitives with Facebook and other social networking sites John Dillinger might not have been such a successful bank robber if he had kept a Facebook page. These days, more and more bail agents, private investigators and law enforcement agencies are using social networking sites such as Facebook ... http://www.collateralmag.com/how-to-locate-fugitives-with-facebook/ LAS VEGAS, NV - This week the Justice Court has decided to stop allowing people to post bail between midnight and 8 a.m. The reason for this decision is due to the Clark County pretrial services division's hiring freeze. Since October, the pretrial division that processes bail requests has ... http://www.collateralmag.com/want-to-post-bail-wait-until-morning-says-las-vegas/ HOLLYWOOD, CA - Kayvan Setareh, a 49-year-old businessman from Pacific Palisades, California, was arrested for illegally installing a supergraphic on a famous building near the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The arrest was an unusually aggressive move by law enforcement and comes less than a week after the city attorney filed ... http://www.collateralmag.com/businessman-held-on-1-million-bail-in-supergraphic-case/ OLYMPIA, WA - Earlier this year, the state of Washington began talking about revising its current bailing process. The current Constitution allows judges to deny bail only in death-penalty cases. The proposed amendment would allow judges discretion to deny bail to anyone charged with a crime carrying a maximum sentence ... http://www.collateralmag.com/washington-amendment-may-allow-judges-to-deny-bail/ ST. LOUIS, MO - Judges have decided to rework the current  St. Louis Circuit Court's bond commission office. They would like to make bailing someone out of jail more efficient and cost-effective and are asking for ideas on the issue.The current bail process requires multiple offices to approve paperwork in ... http://www.collateralmag.com/st-louis-judges-continue-toward-bail-bond-overhaul/ Prison overcrowding has become an ever-evolving dilemma for many states, where each new solution creates a new assortment of problems. The end result has been prisons operating grossly over capacity, such as in California, where the state's 33 prisons were designed to hold 84,000 inmates but are packed with 158,000. ... http://www.collateralmag.com/post-conviction-bonds-a-promising-solution-to-prison-overcrowding/ ST. JOHN, FL – Senator John Thrasher is advocating a bill -- Senate Bill 782-- which would limit access to pretrial programs by limiting the requirements for legibility more strictly. Thrasher and other advocates of the bill note that the new legislation would make streets safer, would save tax dollars, ... http://www.collateralmag.com/pretrial-bill-sees-controversy-in-florida/ COLUMBUS, OH – When bondsmen chase down a fugitive, they often investigate the felon’s family and friends. That tactic paid off recently for investigators searching for former National Century executive Rebecca S. Parrett. Wanted after being indicted for stealing from investors, Parrett ran from justice. However, she made a classic ... http://www.collateralmag.com/white-collar-fugitive-commits-common-mistakes/ BRIGHTON, CO – A recent article in a Colorado newspaper compared the costs of keeping inmates in jail and found the costs comparable to sending a teen to college. The U.S. Justice Department reports that it costs $22,000-$25,000 annually to keep someone in jail – comparable to the cost of ... http://www.collateralmag.com/jail-costs-examined/ SOLANO, CA – According to bondsman Michael Bowman of Calvin Elam Bail Bonds, the bail bond industry is becoming a less profitable business proposition. He notes that the recent economic downturn caused many local bondsmen to go out of business. Businesses like his who remained in business had to adjust ... http://www.collateralmag.com/is-the-bail-bond-industry-becoming-less-lucrative/