California Bail Schedules
What each county publishes as the bail amount for a given offense, taken from the court’s own document and linked back to it.
A schedule amount is a starting point, not a promise. Since In re Humphrey (2021), a California judge must consider whether someone can actually afford the amount set, and must look at non-financial conditions of release first. Counties also issue standing orders that change parts of their published schedule. The figure below is what the county published. The amount actually set in a given case can be lower, higher, or replaced with release on own recognizance.
- California Uniform Bail and Penalty Schedule1601 offenses, effective 2026, adopted by 7 counties
- Butte County Bail Schedule1593 offenses, effective January 1, 2026
- El Dorado County Bail Schedule332 offenses, effective 2025
- Imperial County Bail Schedule1431 offenses, effective 2025
- Kern County Bail Schedule381 offenses, effective DECEMBER 19, 2025
- Lassen County Bail Schedule1782 offenses, effective 2026
- Mendocino County Bail Schedule1798 offenses, effective 2025
- Plumas County Bail Schedule1920 offenses, effective 2026
- Santa Clara County Bail Schedule107 offenses, effective 2026
- Santa Cruz County Bail Schedule304 offenses, effective 2026
Not published yet
These counties publish a schedule we could not use. We would rather show nothing than a figure we cannot stand behind.
| County | Why it is held back |
|---|---|
| Alameda | parse produced too few rows |
| Amador | parse produced too few rows |
| Calaveras | stale (2016) |
| Marin | parse produced too few rows |
| Mono | parse produced too few rows |
| Nevada | stale (January 1, 2019) |
| San Luis Obispo | parse produced too few rows |
| Santa Barbara | parse produced too few rows |
| Shasta | parse produced too few rows |
| Sonoma | parse produced too few rows |
| Sutter | no effective date found |