Confronted with a lawsuit by the ACLU and the Stanford Law School Criminal Defense Clinic, Santa Clara County Superior Court has changed a policy that amounted to a system of wealth-based detention. Until very recently, anyone who wanted to voluntarily appear in court to address an outstanding arrest warrant—but couldn’t afford bail—had to go to jail first. Yet any person who did have money could simply post bail, secure a court date, and avoid incarceration altogether.