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Abstract: 

Sentencing conditions that either permit or require some form of monitoring device are a feature of sentencing laws federally and in every state of the union. This special double issue of Journal of Offender Monitoring brings together in one place all federal and state statutory provisions citing electronic monitoring as either a sentencing option or requirement. This is the second guide to statutes the journal has compiled. The first was published five years ago and included legislation in effect at the end of 2015. This revised edition is current through the end of 2020. Nearly 25% of the statutory language now in force is new or revised since the first edition. Legislation that mandates, regulates, or otherwise affects remote supervision technologies rarely occurs in the form of a clean, stand-alone bill; rather, provisions relating to electronic monitoring are usually enacted as sections within or amendments to larger bills. Our legal editor, Ken Kozlowski, has compiled this guide by identifying the relevant provisions from within the larger statutory regimes of federal and state law, and organizing them, by state, in general categories related to the type of offenses, such as “domestic violence” or “sex offenders,” for which electronic monitoring may be or must be utilized, as well as sections on how the law deals with tampering, absconding, and other violations of supervised release under EM. In this brief introduction we explore some of the trends in state and federal sentencing that became evident as we compiled this guide.

Keywords: Electronic Monitoring; GPS Monintoring; Federal and State Sentencing Statutes; Offender Monitoring

Affiliations:  1: Journal of Offender Monitoring.