Parole: electronic monitoring.

Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to release a prisoner on a specified period of parole after the expiration of a specified term of imprisonment. Under existing law, the department is authorized to return a parolee to prison if the Board of Parole Hearings determines that the parolee violated the terms of his or her parole, as specified. Existing law prohibits the department from returning certain parolees to prison, placing a parole hold on the parolee, or reporting the parolee to the Board of Parole Hearings for a violation of parole, as specified. This bill would provide that a parolee to whom these limitations on the department are applicable may be required to wear an electronic monitoring device, for the duration of the parole period, by a local law enforcement agency that has primary jurisdiction over the location where the parolee resides and has been authorized by the department, in its discretion, to use global positioning system technology or otherwise monitor nonrevocable parolees. This bill would provide that any local law enforcement agency meeting those conditions shall, prior to any electronic monitoring of nonrevocable parolees, enter into a memorandum of understanding with the department, as specified, at the agency's expense. The bill would provide that the cost of acquiring, leasing, and monitoring an electronic monitoring device shall be the responsibility of the local law enforcement agency requiring the wearing of the device.