DEFINITION of Bail Bond. A bail bond is a written promise signed by a defendant and surety to ensure that a criminal defendant will appear in court at the scheduled time and date, as ordered by the court. The bail amount is set by the court.
The words “bail” and “bond” are often used almost interchangeably when discussing jail release, and while they are closely related to each other, they are not the same thing. Bail is the money a defendant must pay in order to get out of jail. … Bail is not intended as a punishment in itself.
When defendants use a bail bond agent, they pay the agent a fee and the agent acts as a surety, telling the court that they (the bond agents) will pay the full bond amount should the defendant fail to appear at court. Bail bond agents make money by collecting a fee from those who want to be bailed out.
Tracking Fugitives: Long Beach, CA- In a recent article by Motherboard they reported about companies that traffic in personal location data, and how easy that information can be acquired for a few hundred dollars. The reporter said he was able to pay a bounty hunter $300 to get a cell phone’s GPS location. The bounty hunter was able to buy the location data through third-party vendors that get the data directly from T-Mobile. T-Mobile shares location data with companies like Zumigo, who shares that information with Microbilt. Microbilt then shares that data with its customers. The Motherboard article claimed the ...
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