Councilmember Cabán questions partially secured bond processing on nights and weekends
Cabán asks about families unable to pay partially secured bonds on nights and weekends, forcing people to wait. Zayas confirms a plan is in place to train clerks to handle these on weekends and holidays in each county.
Another common problem that we're seeing is that
families are unable to pay partially secured bonds on nights and weekends, which means people who could be released after bail is set or really soon after that have to wait for a clerk to swear out the PSB during the day or during the week.
Will you commit to remedying that?
Will you commit to making sure that we can do these things on nights and weekends?
Because we should be.
Yeah.
And so what's the what's the plan for that?
We have a plan in place.
We met with some of the advocates recently who brought that to our attention, and we are going to make that happen.
What do you know?
Can you share what the plan is?
The plan is to make sure that the clerks on weekends and holidays are able to...
are required to take those.
I mean, especially for like a three-day weekend, why should someone stay in jail for three more days?
I agree.
This was recently brought to our attention, and the plan is to make it happen.
To train the clerks to make it to happen, and it will happen in each of the counties.