{"id":214278,"date":"2025-08-25T15:09:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/?post_type=press_release&#038;p=214278"},"modified":"2025-08-25T15:09:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:09:52","slug":"aclu-condemns-trump-executive-orders-targeting-cash-bail-reform-in-washington-d-c","status":"publish","type":"press_release","link":"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/press-releases\/aclu-condemns-trump-executive-orders-targeting-cash-bail-reform-in-washington-d-c","title":{"rendered":"ACLU Condemns Trump Executive Orders Targeting Cash Bail Reform in Washington, D.C."},"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-214278","press_release","type-press_release","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"subheading":"","date_and_time":"2025-08-25 15:00:09","featured_image":"","show_on_press_releases_landing_page":true,"components":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":{"text":"WASHINGTON \u2013 President Trump signed two executive orders today attempting to end <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/08\/measures-to-end-cashless-bail-and-enforce-the-law-in-the-district-of-columbia\/\">Washington, D.C.\u2019s cash bail reforms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/08\/taking-steps-to-end-cashless-bail-to-protect-americans\/\">threatening to withhold federal funds<\/a> from cities with similar policies.\r\n\r\nBelow is a statement from<strong> Cynthia Roseberry, director of policy and government affairs with the American Civil Liberties Union\u2019s Justice Division, <\/strong>in response to the orders:\r\n\r\n\u201cTo further his dangerous, performative abuse of power in D.C., President Trump today took another step to make people in our nation\u2019s capital less safe by targeting common sense bail reforms. These executive orders are another blatant power grab by the Trump administration that will only serve to benefit the predatory bail industry. But the people who will be most impacted are those with the fewest resources. Whether we can afford to pay should never determine our freedom.\u201d\r\n\r\n\u201cThe President\u2019s attempt to end cash bail risks increasing pretrial detention, which is not a real solution to preventing crime in D.C. It can actually have a negative effect on public safety, by separating people from their support networks, jobs, and housing,\u201d <strong>said Alicia Yass, supervisory policy counsel at ACLU of the District of Columbia.<\/strong> \u201cEven short periods of unnecessary detention increase a person's risk of re-arrest, and cash bail has been associated with a 6 to 9 percent increase in reoffending or committing another crime. Cash bail has long punished people living below the poverty line \u2014 especially Black and Brown communities. 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