Taking Steps To End Cashless Bail To Protect Americans
Signed: August 25, 2025
Published: August 28, 2025
Document Number: 2025-16618
📋Summary
This executive order directs the Federal Government to stop using Federal policies and resources to support States and local jurisdictions that have largely eliminated cash bail for certain crimes seen as serious threats to public safety. It affects State and local governments with “cashless bail” systems for offenses such as violent or sexual crimes, burglary, looting, or vandalism, as well as Federal agencies that provide funding to those jurisdictions. Within 30 days, the Attorney General must produce and update a list of jurisdictions that meet this definition. Federal departments and agencies, working with the Office of Management and Budget, must then identify Federal grants, contracts, and other funds going to those jurisdictions that could be suspended or ended, as allowed by law and available funding.
💼Business Impact
This order most directly affects businesses that sell to, contract with, or rely on federally funded state/local agencies in “cashless bail jurisdictions”—especially government contractors (IT, facilities, staffing), public safety and justice vendors (jail/prison services, electronic monitoring, court tech), and nonprofits providing reentry, legal aid, or community programs funded through DOJ/HHS grants. If a state/city is listed by DOJ, federal grants and contracts flowing to that jurisdiction may be suspended or terminated, creating near-term revenue risk for vendors and potential opportunities for firms in jurisdictions that maintain cash bail (or for solutions that support detention capacity, pretrial services, and compliance reporting). Immediate actions: determine whether your key customers (city/county/state agencies) are likely to be designated, inventory contracts/grants tied to federal pass-through dollars, add termination/funding-contingency language and diversification plans to your pipeline, and engage customers now to understand their funding exposure and whether procurements will pause, shift scope, or be rebid.
Full Text
Executive Order 14342 of August 25, 2025
Taking Steps To End Cashless Bail To Protect Americans
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1 . Purpose and Policy. Maintaining order and public safety requires incarcerating individuals whose pending criminal charges or criminal history demonstrate a clear ongoing risk to society. When these individuals are released without bail under city or State policies, they are permitted—even encouraged—to further endanger law-abiding, hard-working Americans because they know our laws will not be enforced. Our great law enforcement officers risk their lives to arrest potentially violent criminals, only to be forced to arrest the same individuals, sometimes for the same crimes, while they await trial on the previous charges. This is a waste of public resources and a threat to public safety.
As President, I will require commonsense policies that protect Americans' safety and well-being by incarcerating individuals who are known threats. It is therefore the policy of my Administration that Federal policies and resources should not be used to support jurisdictions with cashless bail policies, to the maximum extent permitted by law.
Sec. 2 . Consequences for Cashless Bail Jurisdictions. (a) Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Attorney General shall submit to the President, through the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security, a list of States and local jurisdictions that have, in the Attorney General's opinion, substantially eliminated cash bail as a potential condition of pretrial release from custody for crimes that pose a clear threat to public safety and order, including offenses involving violent, sexual, or indecent acts, or burglary, looting, or vandalism. The Attorney General shall update this list as necessary.
(b) The head of each executive department and agency, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, shall identify Federal funds, including grants and contracts, currently provided to cashless bail jurisdictions identified pursuant to subsection (a) of this section that may be suspended or terminated, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law.
Sec. 3 . General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
( printed page 42130)(d) The costs for publication of this order shall be borne by the Department of Justice.
THE WHITE HOUSE,
August 25, 2025.