Two Georgia district attorneys are among those criticizing a bill to require cash bail before anyone charged with a felony could be released from jail, saying it could maroon poor people behind bars and reduce access to pretrial diversion and alternative courts.

Senators last week voted 30-22 along party lines to pass Senate Bill 504, sponsored by Sen. Randy Robertson, a Cataula Republican. Last year, Robertson sponsored a law to increase to 28 the number of felony offenses for which cash bail is required. Now he wants to apply the same rule to all of Georgia’s more than 600 felony charges.

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