Sweeping bail reform is set to take effect in New York on January 1, reducing the number of people who spend time in jail pre-trial. But some legislators are urging Governor Andrew Cuomo to take another look before anything is written in stone.

"The intention of the reform is not something I'm opposed to; it's the fact that these bills were drafted without input from district attorneys and prosecutors around the state," said Rensselaer County DA Mary Pat Donnelly.

As the bill stands presently, a person who is not being charged with a felony, and has no prior convictions, can avoid jail time until their trial, but Donnelly fears there might not be enough man power to see the changes through.

"We are now given a burden that is almost untenable, with absolutely no funding in staffing our offices," said Donnelly, a Democrat.

Community organizer Amy Jones says lack of funding shouldn't be an obstacle to passing bail reform.

"I just believe the push back from district attorneys and [their] fear mongering tactics are not going to work because the citizenry knows how important this is to the community and to mass incarceration," Jones said.

Jones says pre-trial incarceration can have very real effects on people who haven't been proven guilty, as well as disproportionately affecting low-income individuals.

"If you're already poor and you lose your job, what happens? You fall off the cliff," Jones said.

The Rensselaer County Legislature's Democratic minority leader, Peter Grimm, says bill modifications they are proposing are crafted with the general public in mind.

"If people are put back on the streets, repeat offenders without bail, there's no retention period involved in this. Public safety is the main reason we have submitted this," Grimm said.

Grimm says they will present the proposal in a resolution at the legislature's next meeting set for November 12.