Earlier this month, at around 4:30 a.m., Chicago police officers noticed a car with a broken headlight and initiated a stop. The officers spotted a black bag on the floorboard, felt an L-shaped object ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Cook County chief judge’s office has toughened protocols around its electronic monitoring program, making changes in the wake ...

Judges in multiple recent cases have ordered the release of defendants on electronic monitoring, a program run by the Metropolitan Police Department, only to have police refuse to follow the decisions ...

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The Cook County Sheriff’s Office has officially ended its electronic monitoring program. The Chief Judge’s Office, through the Adult Probation Department, will now handle all electronic monitoring ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C.,None — He wasn't gone long. Less than two days after police say he cut off his electronic monitor, officers arrested Tomonta Simmons at a home in southwest Charlotte Friday morning.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. COOK COUNTY, Ill. — For more than three ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Frustrations within the New Orleans City Council reached a boiling point Monday (Aug. 26) over issues with the electronic monitoring program in the juvenile court system. Council ...

HARMONY, Maine (WMTW) - When pretrial inmates are released on bail, many victims find themselves fearing for their lives. Electronic monitoring could provide a measure of security, but it’s only ...

NEW ORLEANS — A plan is in the works to transform the juvenile electronic monitoring program in New Orleans. “It became very clear that the courts in juvenile were sending young people out with ...

San Francisco officials are celebrating the revival of what they call a key tool in their pretrial supervision arsenal after a federal appeals court ruled that requiring warrantless searches for ...