Justice Catalyst ‘20-‘21 Fellow Yazmine Nichols and ACLU colleagues Publish ACLU’s First-ever Electronic Monitoring Guide
Image Credits: ACLU Electronic Monitoring Guide cover page: https://www.aclu.org/report/rethinking-electronic-monitoring-harm-reduction-guide
Justice Catalyst ‘20-‘21 Fellow Yazmine Nichols and her colleagues Allison Frankel and Ayomikun Idowu at the American Civil Liberties Unionpublished ACLU's first ever electronic monitoring guide. The report recommends replacing the use of electronic monitoring, a form of GPS monitoring increasingly used in pretrial, probation, parole, and immigration proceedings to track the location of the wearer.
“Years of evidence shows that electronic monitoring does not achieve its purported outcomes of improving public safety, aiding in rehabilitation and ensuring court attendance. In the report, we highlight low-tech solutions, such as court reminders and transportation assistance, that achieve these results without radically restricting peoples’ privacy and liberty.” - Yazmine Nichols, a Justice Catalyst Fellow with the ACLU’s Criminal Law Reform Project, and one of the report’s co-authors.
The report, Rethinking Electronic Monitoring: A Harm Reduction Guide, can be found here: https://www.aclu.org/report/rethinking-electronic-monitoring-harm-reduct...
First-person accounts of being on electronic monitoring can be found here: https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/ankle-monitoring-devices-f...
A tipsheet for defense attorneys to challenge pretrial electronic monitoring can be found here: https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/defense-attorneys-tips-for...
Nichols's ACLU report on how release conditions can end in unjust confinement can be found here: https://www.aclu.org/news/smart-justice/when-release-conditions-end-in-unjust-confinement
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