Editing Electronic tagging (section)

=== Australia and New Zealand ===
In [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]] existing law permits the use of electronic monitoring as condition for bail, probation or parole. But, according to the 2004 ''Standard Guidelines for Corrections in Australia'' the surveillance must be proportionate to the risk of re-offense. It is also required that, the surveillance of the offender is minimally intrusive for other people who live at the premises. Electronic tagging of a person is part of different electronic monitoring systems in Australia. Correctional agency statistics are collected in Australia for so called "restricted movement orders". In South Australia, a drive-by facility allows the monitorer to drive past a building in which the tagged person is supposed to be.<ref>{{cite book | author = Mike Nellis, Kristel Beyens & Dan Kaminski |title=Electronically Monitored Punishment: International and Critical Perspectives |year= 2013 |publisher= Routledge |isbn=9781136242786 |pages= 84}}</ref> 

In New Zealand, the electronic tagging of offenders began 1999, when home detention could be imposed instead of imprisonment.<ref>{{cite book | author = Mike Nellis, Kristel Beyens & Dan Kaminski |title=Electronically Monitored Punishment: International and Critical Perspectives |year= 2013 |publisher= Routledge |isbn=9781136242786 |pages= 82}}</ref> By late July 2023, [[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] reported that 2,230 teenagers had been subject to electronic monitoring since 2019, citing figures released by the [[Department of Corrections (New Zealand)|Department of Corrections]]. The number of 13 year olds wearing ankle bracelets rose from one in 2019/2020 to nine in 2022/2023. The vast majority teenagers subject to electronic monitoring were males, with 2,011 reported in July 2023.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wilson |first1=Libby |title=Is 13 too young for an ankle bracelet? |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/waikato/300938118/is-13-too-young-for-an-ankle-bracelet |access-date=15 April 2024 |work=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] |date=29 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230731045726/https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/waikato/300938118/is-13-too-young-for-an-ankle-bracelet |archive-date=31 July 2023}}</ref>