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Under changes Judge Charles Beach has ordered for the county's electronic monitoring program, authorities will be alerted when someone on electronic monitoring is committing a major violation. They include triggering a "major violation" after three hours, rather than the previous 48 hours. Those alerts will then go before the judge handling that violator's case on a 24/7 basis starting Feb. 7, whereas before those cases only went before judges on weekdays.
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So after they kill someone, they get locked up? Doesn’t seem to be a solution in there.
That’s an improvement, but it ultimately depends on the judge to do something meaningful after being notified of the violation. Of course, if the perp were just kept behind bars in the first place, all of this 24/7 activity wouldn’t be needed..