CHICAGO (CBS) -- A new electronic monitoring service, used by the courts in the Chicago area as an alternative to staying behind bars, has some questioning if the high tech ankle bracelets go too far.

5 Investigates has learned that 3,000 ankle bracelets that are supposed to be monitoring accused and convicted criminals across Massachusetts are all being replaced.Watch the reportThe move by the ...

TAMPA (FOX 13) - Many people have probably heard of GPS monitoring for teens - but it's usually done through an app on their cell phone. A Clearwater company now offers GPS ankle bracelet monitoring, ...

Three decades after they were introduced as a crime-fighting tool, electronic ankle bracelets used to track an offender’s whereabouts have proliferated so much that officials are struggling to handle ...

Utah authorities think they have a valuable new use for the ubiquitous ankle bracelet: to locate missing patients with Alzheimer’s or dementia. Officials in Davis County, about half an hour north of ...

NEW YORK — If an alcohol- monitoring bracelet can keep celebrities such as actress Lindsay Lohan from drinking, some parents might wonder: Can I get one for my teen? The answer is no. For the time ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – A week after a judge removed an ankle bracelet from a man accused of assaulting his girlfriend, Rochester police say the man killed his girlfriend. The story by News10NBC Chief ...

Law enforcement officials were alerted to Brandon Singleton's disappearance last Friday when he cut off his ankle monitor.The device is worn by people under house arrest or on parole. It sends out ...

Harrison County Youth Court Judge Margaret Alphonso talks to Mississippi Department of Human Services caseworkers before their session on May17, 2016 in Gulfport. Now, she says 2017 state budget cuts ...