AB 60

This bill prohibits a municipal court or court assigned to exercise jurisdiction

under the Juvenile Justice Code (juvenile court) from ordering the use of electronic

monitoring for children in truancy cases. Under current law, a municipality may

adopt an ordinance that prohibits a child from being absent from school without an

acceptable excuse for part or all of any day (truancy) or for part or all of five or more

days (habitual truancy) on which school is held during a school semester and from

dropping out of school. Current law prescribes the dispositional orders that may be

authorized under these ordinances and the sanctions that a court may impose for a

violation of a court order. This bill prohibits a municipality from authorizing the use

of electronic monitoring of a child as a disposition for a truancy, habitual truancy, or

dropout case and prohibits a court from imposing electronic monitoring as a part of

a disposition or sanction in a truancy, habitual truancy, or dropout case.