Events

Bail USA 2009 Convention

4 pm – 6 pm	Registration
	Welcome Reception
6 pm	Open Bar
7 pm	Buffet
	Entertainment: “Polynesian Review” – Fire Dancers with show and audience participation

7:30 – 8:30 am	Breakfast
9 am – 1 pm	General Meeting Moderator: Russell Ideishi Welcome: Harvey Childs Remarks: Cheryl Burns
10 am	Voluntary Benefits presentation – Affordable Health Care for independent contractors. The importance of this is that it is something that will tie your bail agents to your operation. It is an affordable coverage benefit package for you and your bail agents.
11 am	Judge Nancy Russo – Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge and Re-entry Court Judge – “Post conviction bond”
11:45 am	Dennis Williams – “Pretrial Release and their participation with the County Commissioners”
1 pm	Lunch on own
2 – 4 pm	Russell Ideishi, Boone Tidwell and John O’Byron “TEACHING FOR SUCCESS”
	Dinner on your own

	Moderator: Kermit Tobias
7:30 – 8:30 am	Breakfast
9 am	International Bounty Hunter Jerry Anderson will speak about international recoveries and talk to you about the information he needs you to obtain before you post a bond so he can locate your fugitive.
9:45 am	William Cole: “True Life Experience of Skip Tracing in Africa”
11 am	Ellis Hunter – “How to build a successful general agency and maintain the loyalty of your bail agents”
12:00 Noon	Dr. Alan Childs – “How to handle stress in a stressful world”
1 pm	Lunch on Own
2 – 4 pm	GPS Monitoring – Boone Tidwell We will have a live demonstration with a GPS unit. Is this another revenue source you need for your business? Should you be trained in the use of GPS? If you are trained doesn’t it stand to reason that you now can instruct your county about how GPS should be used in conjunction with surety bail?
6 pm	Cocktail Hour
7 pm	Grand Finale Banquet “Presentation of Winner of Exoneration Contest” “Best Bounty Hunting Stories – prize for best story”