The Examiner reports today on recent D.C. Council emergency legislation that makes tampering with electronic monitoring ankle bracelets a crime. Under the temporary measure, anyone convicted of interfering with such a device would face six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. The move comes in the wake of news that a 22-year-old man who had been ordered to wear an ankle bracelet managed to disable the device before allegedly killing three men in Trinidad last summer. The suspect shut down his ankle bracelet by merely wrapping tinfoil around it. Doesn’t it seem like if it’s that simple to tamper with these devices, the threat of an extra six months in jail isn’t likely to deter anyone who is intent on committing a crime? A spokesperson for the company that makes the devices told the paper that they have developed alternate technology to make sure authorities can continue to monitor an offender. Hopefully that doesn’t involve banning the sale of tinfoil.