State Sen. Chapin Rose: Problems aplenty with ‘not-so-safe SAFE-T Act’ – Champaign News-Gazette

"In a practical sense, local prosecutors will have a tough choice: pull staff from other court calls — i.e., stop prosecuting other cases — to help cover daily bond court, or forget about asking for bond at all on some defendants. But for most of the smaller counties around us, who are already working on shoestring budgets and typically only have a single assistant prosecutor on staff, pulling in prosecutors from other court calls is not an option, because they don’t exist."