Relocation of Convict Monitoring Firm Urged
Prompted by neighbors’ complaints, Burbank Mayor Bob Kramer is calling for the relocation of the local branch office of a company that monitors convicts by using electronic ankle bracelets.
“We’ve told them their location is inappropriate; it’s near a residential area and a school,” Kramer said. The company, Sentinel Monitoring Corp., has a contract with the county to oversee offenders serving sentences at home while being monitored electronically.
As many as 60 participants in the program pass daily through Sentinel’s Victory Boulevard branch office to have the bracelets put on or for mandatory biweekly appointments with a case manager.
The purpose of the program is to ease overcrowding in the County Jail system.
Although Burbank Police Chief David Newsham said that there have been no criminal incidents reported in the neighborhood associated with the branch office, a handful of complaints have been lodged at City Hall.
Kramer said he will meet with Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich next week to ask that the program be moved.
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