This year’s state budget in New York included a set of comprehensive reforms to the state’s cash bail system intended to keep more people out of jail before trial, but lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo chose not to allocate special funding for pretrial services agencies that will bear the brunt of those changes.

Lawmakers have said they’ll consider allocating funds from the state’s coffers at some point in the future to pay for what’s expected to be an increased demand for pretrial services, but that this year’s state budget did not include such a boost.

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