(August 24, 2008)--Court authorities in San Antonio will be able to track students with a history of skipping school under a new program in which the truant students would be required to wear ankle bracelets with Global Positioning System monitoring, but at least one group is worried the ankle bracelets will infringe on students' privacy.
Linda Penn, a San Antonio justice of the peace, says she anticipates that about 50 students will wear the thick ankle bracelets during the six-month pilot program.
Most will likely be high school students.
Penn says the time students will be required to wear the anklets will be decided on a case-by-case basis, but she doubted any will wear them the entire half-year.
Penn said the electronic monitoring is part of a comprehensive program she started four years ago to reduce truancy.
She cited programs in Midland and Dallas as having success with similar electronic monitoring measures, but American Civil Liberties Union of Texas executive director Terri Burke says requiring students to wear the GPS bracelets full-time raises privacy concerns.
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