# 2025-16615: President Axes Cashless Bail in DC to Detain Dangerous Suspects

2025-16615, Measures To End Cashless Bail and Enforce the Law in the District of Columbia, is a Federal Register presidential document from Executive Office of the President published 2025-08-28, effective 2025-08-25 (as of 2026-11-04).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-16615
- As of: 2026-11-04
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-16615
- Title: Measures To End Cashless Bail and Enforce the Law in the District of Columbia
- Type: Presidential Document
- Agencies: Executive Office of the President
- Citation: 90 FR 42125
- Published: 2025-08-28
- Effective: 2025-08-25
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-04

## In one line

President Axes Cashless Bail in DC to Detain Dangerous Suspects

## Summary

The President is ending the cashless bail system in Washington, D.C., to keep dangerous criminals behind bars before their trials. Federal and local law enforcement will work together to hold suspects in custody when possible, making the city safer for residents, workers, and visitors. Changes start right away, with reviews of police policies and stronger enforcement expected soon, aiming to stop repeat offenders from being quickly released.

## Effects PRIA read

- Federal push to hold D.C. arrestees: benefit, medium. By Executive Order 14340 dated August 25, 2025, federal law enforcement who are part of the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force will work to keep arrestees in the District of Columbia in Federal custody and pursue Federal charges and pretrial detention whenever permitted by law so suspects who threa…
- AG review of MPD policies: benefit, medium. The Attorney General must review Metropolitan Police Department General Orders and other MPD policies to find rules that may cause pretrial release of defendants who pose a threat to public safety, and shall request that the Mayor of the District of Columbia update those orders and policies as the…
- AG to decide if cashless bail remains: benefit, medium. The Attorney General must determine whether the District of Columbia continues to maintain a policy or practice of prohibiting cash bail for pretrial release in cases where an arrestee poses a clear threat to public safety; the order lists example offenses including rape, murder, carjacking, assaul…
- Federal funding and services may be leveraged: mixed, medium. If the Attorney General finds that D.C. maintains a cashless bail policy, heads of executive departments and agencies, working with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, must identify actions to press D.C. to change those policies; examples the order gives include Federal funding dec…

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## Sources
- [2025-16615 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/28/2025-16615/measures-to-end-cashless-bail-and-enforce-the-law-in-the-district-of-columbia)
- [2025-16615 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-08-28/pdf/2025-16615.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-16615 (as of 2026-11-04).