Hello fellow bondsman,

First let me thank you for visiting out web site. We would like to invite you to join BAIL Florida; we are an association of bail agents like YOU! We have your interests in mind when we make decisions about legislation or anything we do. I was recently asked in a CE class I was teaching about who makes the decisions about what we put out there to become legislation. My answer was you do the agent. SO this gentleman proposed an idea about remission, which I have sent on to the legislative committee. That's what we do is listen to you the agent, but if you don't speak we can't read your mind! So speak up! Tell any BAIL Florida board member or call or email me any time, except please don't call at 4am in the morning.

In the coming year we will be seeing how we can get better enforcement from the Dept of Financial Services. It's time the agents of this state who do business the proper way quit being penalized. I am just like a lot of you, a one man show: I answer the calls, I write the bonds and I bring our clients who forget to go court back to jail. I am a career bail agent. It is time that we get the Department to start weeding out those agents who really don't have the best interest of our industry in mind.

In closing, I ask you to support two bills that are in the legislature right now, HB 445 & SB782.

These are two bills that would curtail Pretrial Release Programs. We and other members of the industry are supporting these bills.

Michael ”Big Mike” Nefzger