Court not monitoring GPS bracelets after hours

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Bernalillo County (N.M.) district attorney D.A. Raul Torrez said he believes people who are charged with serious crimes, and are supposed to be supervised with GPS ankle monitors, are not monitored after hours or on weekends. This came to light after Torrez looked into the case of Devin Munford. In December 2020, APD accused Munford of driving around Albuquerque and firing a gun out of his car. The D.A. argued that Munford was dangerous and should be held in jail until his trial, but Judge Clara Moran disagreed. Munford was released with an ankle monitor under the court’s pretrial services supervision program.

“Mr. Mumford was supposed to be on effectively house arrest. The GPS monitoring system was supposed to be in place that kept him under close supervision. It appears to me that there was no active supervision by pretrial services,” he said. While wearing his GPS bracelet, police believe Munford went to an apartment complex and killed a man Friday night. Two days later, police said he allegedly robbed a 7-Eleven at gunpoint. Torrez said this all shows that Munford was going wherever he wanted and doing whatever he wanted, and nobody sent alerts to law enforcement.

D.A. Torrez: We certainly in the District Attorney's Office received no alert. I can tell you that the that our law enforcement partners, the Albuquerque Police Department, were not notified. In fact, when we asked for GPS location data on the whereabouts of this individual after the homicide, the first contact from APD, there was no response because it was after hours, which raises some very serious questions.

KOB 4 reached out to the court for comment. A spokesperson sent KOB 4 a lengthy statement that did not clarify whether anyone is monitoring ankle GPS systems after hours or on weekends.

https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/bernalillo-county-da-says-pretrial-services-are-failing-to-keep-dangerous-people-behind-bars/6089951/?cat=12387

[pennylane100]

1. It would seem that the animals are in charge of the zoo.

Such incompetence is unbelievable.

[padah513]

2. Not monitoring after hours?

That's when they need to be monitored the most!

[SheltieLover]

3. Very common in my limited experience!

Another reason those who are charged with violent crimes should be incarcerated pending trial.

[USALiberal]

5. Innocent until proven guilty! Nt

[Midnightwalk]

4. Woah....What? No alerts?!?

You mean the system is completely manual and someone has to go down a list and manually check each person?

Are punch cards involves?

I always imagined the system would have some task that periodically checked the distance from “home” for each person, maybe so multiple checks to confirm a “too distant” and then texted and emailed a list of people including dispatch.

The shock to me isn’t that they staff all shifts but that it’s completely manual. Given manual yeah staff all shifts but I think you could get someone to write the above script.

[crickets]

6. So, there's no point to using GPS ankle monitors then? nt