Constitutional Law,
Class Action
Aug. 25, 2025
Sheriff fights class action over Riverside cash bail system
A coalition of civil rights firms has expanded a class action alleging Riverside County's cash bail system unconstitutionally jails indigent arrestees, sometimes even after prosecutors drop charges. Sheriff Chad Bianco, a defendant in the case and a Republican candidate for governor, has denounced the lawsuit as an activist-driven abuse of the courts.
Riverside County's cash bail system unconstitutionally disadvantages indigent arrestees, civil rights lawyers contended last week as they added fresh claims to a class action designed to end the practice.
One of the named defendants, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, has pushed back hard, assailing in a podcast what he called "the abuse of the legal system by activists that are going to make us spend taxpayer dollars to defend this lunacy that we've already voted ...
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