Own Recognizance Bond Restrictions

Providing limitations and restrictions on releasing someone charged with a crime using an own recognizance bond.

This bill would dramatically restrict eligibility for OR bonds by limiting access to individuals convicted only of nonperson felonies and imposing a list of additional eligibility requirements. In effect, these changes would eliminate OR bonds for a sizable number of people who are currently presumed innocent and is a significant step backward in Kansas’s efforts to move toward a fairer, evidence-based pretrial justice system.