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Industry news, policy changes, and regulatory updates in electronic monitoring

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AI in Criminal Justice

2026 State GPS Laws: 7 Ankle Monitor Mandates Agencies Need to Know

Third-party industry analysis of why 2026 is shaping up as a breakout year for ankle monitor and GPS ankle bracelet mandates across domestic-violence pilots, parole reform, victim-alert budgets, tampering felonies, carrier sunsets, and federal Alternatives to Detention scale—with procurement implications for electronic monitoring vendors and agency counsel.

· 11 min read
Courthouse columns and steps symbolizing criminal trials where GPS ankle monitor records may be admitted as evidence
AI in Criminal Justice

7 Lessons From California: GPS Ankle Monitor Data Convicts Parolee in Crime Spree

Jordan Corrales of Oxnard, California, drew a seven-year, four-month state prison sentence in March 2026 after convictions in two prosecutions where parole GPS supervision data helped place him at crime-linked locations. This third-party analysis explains why GPS ankle monitor telemetry is becoming standard prosecution art—and what it means for chain of custody, accuracy, and vendor accountability.

· 7 min read
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AI in Criminal Justice

5 Tamper Detection Failures Exposed by Colorado Sex Offender GPS Escape

When a high-risk defendant removed a court-ordered ankle monitor and skipped the reading of a guilty verdict, Colorado’s 23rd Judicial District spotlighted hardware limits, notification workflows, and bond decisions—not just one person’s conduct. This industry analysis distills five procurement and operations lessons for GPS electronic monitoring programmes.

· 7 min read
AI in Criminal Justice

7 Lessons From Banco Master: Electronic Monitoring on the Global Stage

When a major Brazilian bank enters extrajudicial liquidation and federal police widen a financial-crimes probe, judges increasingly reach for the same toolkit used in violent-crime dockets: passport seizures, geographic restrictions, and court-ordered electronic monitoring. The Banco Master case—spanning the controlling shareholder's detention, supervised release with an ankle monitor, a subsequent re-detention in 2026, and judicial orders affecting former central-bank supervision figures—illustrates how EM is migrating up the risk ladder into white-collar enforcement.

· 7 min read