“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.”
That got me too.
“The alternative is that they could have rented a separate house while the breadwinner of the family was in jail. They agreed to it!”
Utterly absurd. I also think, especially for the 14 year old, that level of surveillance is itself a form of abuse.
Abuse? The ACLU needs to represent the family members and sue for 1st amendment violations