Report Title:

Ankle bracelet monitors; sex offenders

WHEREAS, parolees may be monitored as to their location by an electric ankle bracelet; and

WHEREAS, this electric ankle bracelet informs the parole officers if the parolee is in an area from which the parolee is restricted; and

WHEREAS, in many domestic violence cases, restraining orders have been served which end up failing to protect victims; and

WHEREAS, requiring domestic violence offenders who are served restraining orders to wear ankle bracelets would inform police and parole officers if the person wearing the bracelet came closer to the victim than the restraining order allowed; and

WHEREAS, the ankle bracelet could give off a slight vibration to warn the person wearing it that they were getting too close; and

WHEREAS, the use of the ankle bracelet would help enforce otherwise unenforceable restraining orders; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-first Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2001, that the Hawaii Paroling Authority is required to use ankle bracelet monitors on domestic violence offenders with restraining orders as a parole requirement; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Hawaii Paroling Authority.