Electronic monitoring in Cook County: Officials poised to make changes but few details available

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : "I think there is a need for both his system and my system.
55% : Along with CGL Cos., a private company that designs detention facilities, the organization published a report in 2022 that recommended the county begin to take steps to merge its electronic monitoring programs, calling the current setup inefficient and confusing.
46% : "Electronic monitoring should be used for short periods of time and focused on select groups of defendants with high-risk characteristics, often in conjunction with mandatory treatment programs," the report said.Sharlyn Grace, senior policy adviser at the Cook County public defender's office, noted that the nonprofit Appleseed organization and CGL Cos. come from opposite spectrums of the criminal justice system but arrived at the same conclusion in the dual report.

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