Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law eight public safety bills, including a bill that makes it a state jail felony for parolees or defendants to tamper with or remove their ankle monitor. On June 6, Abbott signed a variety of public safety bills enforcing stiffer penalties on aggravated assault, street racing, rogue district attorneys, violence…

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency contractor reported, and the government regularly published, false data showing a huge increase in the use of ankle monitors to track illegal aliens released into the United States, according to a transparency watchdog. The report compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University follows a…

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered two state criminal justice agencies to investigate lapses in the release and parole supervision of two prisoners accused of murder while wearing ankle monitors. In a letter to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles (BPP) and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), Abbott said the ankle monitors…