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Chicago is tracking kids pre-trial with GPS ankle monitors that can call and record them without consent. My latest at @theappeal: theappeal.org/chicago-electr…
@theappeal I talked to a 15-year-old wearing one of the devices.
"Why can’t I just call y’all?” he asked. "Why can’t it be simple? It’s kind of like being treated like a slave or something like that. They don’t give us no room to think.” theappeal.org/chicago-electr…
"Why can’t I just call y’all?” he asked. "Why can’t it be simple? It’s kind of like being treated like a slave or something like that. They don’t give us no room to think.” theappeal.org/chicago-electr…
@theappeal When I approached Chicago with questions about the privacy of the recordings (which can be used in criminal investigations), they suspended the recording function “in an abundance of caution.” theappeal.org/chicago-electr…
@theappeal "The idea that an adult can turn on a listening device while a child is, say, in the bathroom or in their bedroom is not good.” theappeal.org/chicago-electr…
@theappeal Read my reporting on new ankle monitors in Chicago that can record kids without consent, now in @CityLab citylab.com/equity/2019/04…
“I can’t quite even start down the parade of horribles in terms of all the ways this could be a problem.” theappeal.org/chicago-electr…
