Baton Rouge DA subpoenas ankle monitoring companies over alleged unreported violations

BATON ROUGE — The East Baton Rouge District Attorney’s Office is subpoenaing several ankle monitoring companies over claims that offender violations were withheld from prosecutors.

District Attorney Hillar Moore said his office has been made aware of several instances in the past two weeks where monitoring companies failed to report offender violations in a timely manner as required by law. The companies include Magnolia Monitoring and Homebound Monitoring.

“We’ve seen an uptick in violations that we’ve received, also violations that we’ve found ourselves prior to receiving notifications,” Moore said…

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