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| Monitoring programs have history of trouble |
| By orlandosentinel.com - Jeff Weiner |
| Published: 05/27/2013 |
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Just two years after Orange County's home-confinement program began, the first review was in. It wasn't good. The Orlando Sentinel reported in 1991 that those running the program weren't following their own rules, the monitoring was at times ineffective and defendants who had no business being on the program were on it regardless. Those complaints have resurfaced since the September slaying of 19-year-old Alex Zaldivar, a victim and witness in a May 2012 home invasion. Police say he was killed by Bessman Okafor, a defendant in the home invasion who was on home-confinement monitoring at the time of the murder. The program was suspended after the Sentinel reported in February that Okafor had potentially violated his curfew dozens of times, none of which was reported to the judge in his case. Read More. |
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