{"id":514390,"date":"2023-01-14T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=514390"},"modified":"2023-01-14T20:33:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T20:33:19","slug":"bail-amendment-speeds-through-committee-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/bail-amendment-speeds-through-committee-votes","title":{"rendered":"Bail amendment speeds through committee votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 14, 2023A proposal to create stricter bail laws by amending the Wisconsin Constitution is quickly making its way through legislative committees. Following an hours-long joint public hearing on Tuesday, the proposal passed the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety in a 5-3 vote and the Assembly Committee on Judiciary 6-1.If adopted, the amendment would eliminate language in the state constitution stating that bail may only be set to assure the appearance of the accused in court. Rep. Cindi Duchow (R-Delafield), Sen. Van Wanggaard (R-Racine), and other proponents of the amendment say that it would grant judges the ability to consider a person&#8217;s past criminal history when setting bail. While Duchow and others have said the amendment would focus on violent crimes, the Republican-controlled Legislature will ultimately decide what qualifies as a violent crime and the factors that pose a risk to the community. Critics of the bill argue that judges already have the power to factor in a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposal to create stricter bail laws by amending the Wisconsin Constitution is quickly making its way through legislative committees. Following an hours-long joint public hearing on Tuesday, the proposal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}