On January 9, 2023, Act 71 of 2022 took effect. This Act amends the Crimes Victim’s Act clarifies victims’ rights with respect to bail in Personal Injury Crimes, Crimes of Violence, Sexual Abuse of Children and Sexual Exploitation of Children. Under Act 71 “the right not to be excluded . . . shall afford the victim the right to offer comment regarding a defendant’s bail conditions at the time that bail conditions are imposed or at any subsequent proceeding where bail conditions may be modified.” 18 P.S. § 11.201(2.1)(iii).

NLCRPD is posting the agency policy directive , guiding statute and other information concerning the NLCRPD agency provided guidance for compliance with a statutory change designed to enhance the rights of crime victims to have input on bail. The NLCRPD has all agency policy directives available at www.nlcrpd .org under the drop-down tab marked NLCRPD Policy. This particular written directive is under the General Order number 4.5.1
A copy of the guiding statute and NLCRPD policy directive are attached as PDF files to this release.