“This is the most extreme type of monitoring that I’ve seen,” says Pilar Weiss, founder of the National Bail Fund Network, a network of over 90 community bail and bond funds across the United States. “It’s part of a disturbing trend where deep surveillance and social control applications are used pretrial with little oversight.”

  • nodester@partizle.com
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    1 year ago

    Oh totally. And they’re not even alleged to have done anything wrong.

    The prosecutor will say “well they could have lived in a Four Seasons instead of with their father.” Prosecutors are seldom reasonable people.

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      1 year ago

      I believe the judge actually said something to the effect of “they chose to live with him still, and consented to the app”