New report being released today showing #electronicmonitoring of juveniles is pervasive in CA. 90% of counties (53 of 58) tracking *thousands* of young people. @berkeleylaw @samuelsonclinic THREAD 1/5 https://www.law.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Samuelson-Electronic-Monitoring-Youth-California-Addl-Data-11_2020.pdf

3 counties, including #orangecounty provide ALL of their electronic monitoring data to law enforcement agencies. This is the first time we have known of this sort of mass sharing of data in CA juvenile probation departments. 2/5

Yet the impact of #electronicmonitoring is poorly understood. Youth advocates worry it pulls young people deeper into the juvenile system through the detection of additional, often minor, violations. @EBCLCnews 3/5

That we know so little is also symptomatic of how we run our justice system in this country: with little-to-no evaluation of how various interventions advance the system’s goals. 4/5

Probation departments are underfunded and lack staff with the expertise to evaluate policy choices. As a result, tech like #electronicmonitoring becomes widespread with little sense of how they fit into the system’s goal of controlling crime and rehabilitating youth. 5/5