Inmates: electronic monitoring.

Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors of any county to authorize the correctional administrator, as defined, to offer a program under which only inmates being held in lieu of bail in a county jail or other county correctional facility may participate in an electronic monitoring program if the inmate is not the subject of a hold or an outstanding warrant and any one of certain conditions are met. This bill would authorize a defendant arrested without a warrant for a bailable offense that is a felony punishable in a county jail to apply for release on a reduced bail if the defendant agrees to be placed in an electronic monitoring program administered by the county-authorized correctional administrator. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.