Ankle monitor company gave OK for defendant to violate bond hundreds of times, DA says

A Baton Rouge ankle monitoring company allowed a defendant to break the conditions of his bond hundreds of times in a two-month span, with employees appearing to have approved the man’s movements in lieu of a judge’s approval, according to District Attorney Hillar Moore.

Home Bound Monitoring Pre-Trial and Probation Services has been at the center of Moore’s recent inquiry into local ankle monitoring companies that have failed to report their clients’ violations.

In a motion filed Tuesday seeking more information from the company, Moore’s office claimed that one of Home Bound Monitoring’s clients, Ashtin Ursin, committed as many as 1,181 violations between Feb. 20 and April 29…

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