AI-assisted research summary: Courts and monitoring providers must enforce and report on electronic monitoring conditions, and monitored persons must keep equipment working and cooperate with repairs.
§571.37. Electronic monitoring programs A. The court shall impose any condition necessary to further the rehabilitation of a person released subject to electronic monitoring, including maintaining employment and compliance with inclusion and exclusion zones as defined in R.S. 15:571.38. In the case of a juvenile, the conditions may include staying in school, participating in after-school activities, or being subject to a curfew. B. The cost for an adult participating in an electronic monitoring program shall be borne by the person being monitored. The court may waive the cost of electronic monitoring in a juvenile matter or in any other matter at the request of the entity that is otherwise responsible for the cost of monitoring. C. As a condition of electronic monitoring, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person subject to electronic monitoring, including a juvenile, shall: (1) Maintain the monitoring equipment in normal working order including but not limited to keeping the monitoring equipment charged. (2) Consent to immediate cooperation with and acquiesce to any efforts to evaluate, diagnose, and repair any technical issues associated with the device and monitoring by the electronic monitoring company, which may include but not be limited to reasonable detention by law enforcement. D. Electronic monitoring providers operating in this state shall actively monitor any person subject to electronic monitoring for compliance and report any violation in accordance with R.S. 15:571.36. Daily noncompliance reports shall be provided to the district attorney regarding the person being monitored. E.(1) Upon a finding of noncompliance, the court may, either on its own motion or that of the district attorney, issue a warrant for the arrest of a person subject to electronic monitoring. (2) A person arrested pursuant to a warrant issued pursuant to Paragraph (1) of this Subsection shall be held in custody until a hearing is conducted to determine if the person can and will comply with all electronic monitoring restrictions. (3) The court shall terminate a person's participation in an electronic monitoring program, and remand him to state custody for an adult or to the appropriate pretrial facility for a juvenile, after his third finding of noncompliance by the court. Acts 2025, No. 416, §1.