“Public safety decisions are only as good as the information behind them,” Jill Dennis, Director & Owner of the Assured Supervision Accountability Program, explained on my show.
And currently, as far as ankle monitor procedure goes, the City of New Orleans is relying on deeply disjointed information.
Not many people understand the ankle monitor process, but square one is putting information into the Offender Management System (OMS). This storage system contains info about criminal offenders, in this case, those who have been issued an ankle monitor. Once it’s in, law enforcement and courts can access this system to review cases or check for violations…