GPS Tracking Ankle Bracelets for Texas Students Who Skip School
The young uns in Texas best be fixin to stay in school, because a judge wants to strap up truant students to monitoring devices. The children could be tracked “24 hours a days, seven days a week.”
Brazos County Justice of the Peace Tommy Munoz has requested an opinion from the Texas Attorney General’s Office regarding the legality of a pilot program for truancy.
Munoz announced his plans for the program in September. The program would put electronic monitoring devices on students who skip class too often.
In September, Munoz said, “We’re just going to try and see what it does, how it does and it may not work here, we’ll just take it a day at a time.”
Failure to attend school is a misdemeanor in Texas. Munoz says that once the program gets approval, the monitoring devices would be ordered. They cost $2,000 each and he says the truant students’ folks may have to foot the bill.
According to Munoz, the monitoring device would be an alternative to sending a kid to a juvenile delinquent program. Plus “it may also serve to deter future criminality.”
This is bullshizzle. However, thus far the ordinance does not allow for consistent electronic monitoring, a measure reserved for stalkers, house arrest folk and criminals considered to be a flight risk.
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