Friday, March 13, 2009
Fox 2 Airs Story on Bail Industry in MO
Channel 2-Fox News aired a story last night concerning the bail bond industry in Missouri. The report featured a fugitive recovery agent kicking in a door to look for a fugitive. Later, the report looked into the Lee Clause and its effects on the industry. The report detailed the MPBBA’s role in drafting the 15-year felon provision in legislation to allow Lee Jackson to be eligible to become a general bail bond agent The report stated “But the State of Missouri trusted violent felon Virgil Lee Jackson after he pushed for a new law five years ago. It allowed felons to be bail bondsmen. The felony just has to be older than 15 years and Jackson's offenses including two burglaries, unlawful use of a weapon and a first degree robbery were all more than 20 years ago.…So why did Missouri Legislators listen to a felon like Jackson? At the time, he was part of the Missouri Professional Bail Bond Association. According to MO records, the Association, and its members, contributed at least $1,300 to the bill's sponsor - former Missouri Representative Robert Behnen. The new law is even known today as the Lee clause -- named after Lee Jackson.”
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one way to correct the bonding business today is
ReplyDeleteto have a no payment plan 10% min bond fee and under ins plan who has the funds if for.
That Fugitive recovery agent in the segment is not a true represenative of the trade. He is a full time bondsman that has little or no experience in the field. I noticed a major flaw in his taticts. He didnt even have just cause to even kick the door with out POI (positive identification) not to mention any back up.
ReplyDeleteWhen you as the new association get better ideas, let us know. The Association, didn't let him in, he got himself in, and we were just adjusting the wording, He could have got in anyways prior to the new legislation. We just worded it so that the individual could word their incident, like a misdemeanor bad check, or a minor traffic violation, could be over looked for the no contest plea.( Drove the wife to the hospital, she got hurt at work and almost lost her life, I didn't have 5 minutes to wait for an ambulance, we loaded up in the van, and haled her to a hospital, and saved her life, regardless, the officer escorted us to the hospital, when we called 911, and they told us to get her to the hospital, regardless; I don't believe their goal was to allow violent criminals in to the bonding business. Yet every business has it's very own criminals, even Law enforcement, and the bar association. Judges still on the seat, after killing people in a hit and run accident because he was drunk? Welcome to the kangaroo court room, where the only one's getting a break are the criminals. The criminals in the business are their bosses fault, duh. Why are GB's out there hiring criminals? He had to be a agent before he was a GB? Doesn't that company know of a little thing the Highway Patrol does, called a background check with a full criminal history. That covers the whole United States of America?Sounds to me like the bad judgment started somewhere else and you are just trying to blame the MPBBA (association) for lack of thinking, in your part. The Association didn't train this guy, if they did it's not their job to do the background check on the guy. That would be his employer's problem. Now that he is a GB, well that is still up to his previous employer, to deal with him as they see fit, perhaps they should investigate how he got his property that he has up with the state. Did he get it on a bond while he was working for the company? If so the property isn't rightfully his, it belongs to the company? All collateral goes to the company, not the agent. The companies holding most of the liability anyways.
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