AZ HB2599

County boards of supervisors may establish home confinement electronic monitoring programs by majority vote, allowing prisoners to serve jail sentences while remaining employed under court-ordered monitoring conditions.

Prisoners must be specifically authorized by the court and meet risk assessment criteria: no flight risk, currently employed, no community danger, and no prior removal from the program.

Participants must wear GPS monitoring and remain at their residence, work, or court-approved locations; courts may also require continuous alcohol or drug monitoring and treatment program participation.

Prisoners pay for GPS monitoring costs and continuous testing based on program rates; courts may impose monthly administrative fees up to $50; failure to pay constitutes a program violation.

Program violations trigger court hearings within ten days; courts may allow continued participation with additional conditions, impose new requirements, or remove the prisoner to serve remaining sentence in jail; removed prisoners become permanently ineligible for the program.