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"I Won't Leave Their Side Again" - How a Father Used a Supreme Court Ruling on Bail to Reunite With His Family
In April of 2026, a landmark California Supreme Court ruling (In re Kowalczyk) limited who could be detained pretrial and banned unafforable bail. Author and organizer Xavier España sat in courtrooms to see how judges were applying the ruling. While courtwatching and following the efforts of a father trying to be released from a "no bail allowed order" after two years in jail, Xavier realized his efforts for release and to reuinte with his family was more personal than he exp
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Standing Up Against a Corporate Take Over of San José
The #Google8 were arrested and detained on Dec 4th in protest of the public land sale to Google for a new downtown San Jose campus. Two months later they marched into their court date with community support and the message that opposition to this campus is not a crime and the land should be donated back to the community.
SV De-Bug staff
Feb 5, 20191 min read
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