Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch says his department plans to begin electronically monitoring the whereabouts of roughly 180 defendants out on bond starting Feb
ruary 1st. Presiding Circuit Court Judge Wesley Pipes says he will soon issue a standing order that bans private companies from electronically monitoring defendants in state cases in the county. The shift from using private companies to making this a law enforcement function follows a November murder case. Investigators say Nyyon Sanders, who was out on bond for murder, let the battery on his ankle monitor device die.
After Sanders was arrested for the November murder, judges issued orders stating they were no longer allowing Accupoint Monitoring Company to monitor defendants. Right now, the court is allowing only one private company, Pegasus, to monitor defendants. Burch says he's selected a company called Shadowtrack to provide the new monitoring devices for defendants.
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