When a police SWAT team found two teens holed up in an attic with a gun in the Desire neighborhood last week, each wore an electronic monitor.
The one strapped to 19-year-old Ja’Maarion Banks, to enforce a judge’s order for home incarceration, had pinged dozens of possible violations since March, according to the provider, including this month when police allege he led a group of teens on an Uber carjacking spree.
The incident has sparked a caustic exchange between the monitor’s provider, ASAP Release, and Criminal District Judge Tracey Flemings-Davillier over the lapse in oversight, while raising fresh questions about what it means to be monitored in New Orleans…