BILL NUMBER: AB 1081 INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Torrico FEBRUARY 27, 2009 An act relating to electronic monitoring. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1081, as introduced, Torrico. Electronic monitoring: criminal offenders. Existing law authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to use global positioning system technology to supervise persons on parole and authorizes county probation departments to use global positioning system technology to supervise persons on probation, as specified. Existing law also requires that every person who has been convicted of a registerable sex offense to be monitored by a global positioning system for the term of his or her parole, or for the duration or any remaining part thereof, whichever time period is less. This bill would declare the Legislature's intent to enact legislation to allow courts to order electronic surveillance for domestic abusers and stalkers under specified conditions. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would allow the court to order electronic surveillance for domestic abusers and stalkers as a condition of parole, mandatory supervised release, probation, or violation of a protective order. It is also the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would create an electronic monitoring system for domestic abusers and stalkers that utilizes devices with capabilities that would include, but not be limited to, immediately notifying law enforcement of any breach of a court-ordered inclusion zone and notifying the victim in near real time of any breach, and that would impose additional penalties on violators to help pay for the program.