George Day is a bounty hunter from A1-Lucky Bonding in Jefferson City. He says the proposed bill has some standards that would be all right. But others would limit the bounty hunters effectiveness. Day suspects that if this bill passes criminals will come to the state and hide due to the tougher restrictions on bounty hunters. Not all bail bondsman disapprove.
Bounty hunters are too much of a liablility.
Sergeant Steve West agrees with the idea of standards for bounty hunters although he hasn't had any problems in his years with the Jefferson City Police department. Jody Ball is an instructer for the National Association of Bail Enforcement Agents in Austin, Texas. Skaggs says the final cost of the bill has yet to be decided. Campbell says it is in the very beginning stages and has to be assigned to a committee.