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Jan 13, 2009
Council Makes Ankle Bracelet Tampering a Crime
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…