UNSPSC 46171642: Ankle monitor or bracelet

A homing device that defendants under house arrest or parole are required to wear. At all times, the ankle monitor sends a radio frequency signal containing location and other information to a receiver. If an offender moves outside of an allowed range, the police will be notified. Ankle monitors are designed to be tamper-resistant and can alert authorities to removal attempts, such as cutting the band causing a circuit break.

UNSPSC 46171642 Ankle monitor or bracelet is a Commodity code that captures electronic monitoring devices used in criminal justice supervision, though recent state and local opportunities show minimal direct procurement of the hardware itself. Instead, jurisdictions are soliciting integrated electronic monitoring services—including the equipment, monitoring infrastructure, data management, and staffing—as turn-key contracts. Tucson City Court, Fulton County, Georgia, and Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department are actively seeking electronic monitoring service providers to supervise defendants and offenders under probation, home detention, and pre-trial release conditions. The scope spans GPS tracking for domestic violence offenders, property and person crimes, and drug or sex offenses, with monitoring populations ranging from 247 to 600 individuals per jurisdiction. Service providers must manage intake, monthly hookup, daily monitoring fees, compliance reporting, and comprehensive data security with FedRAMP or StateRAMP certification, multi-factor authentication, 72-hour breach notification protocols, and prohibition of using court data for AI model training. City and county courts are the primary issuing bodies, typically structured as municipal limited-jurisdiction courts or superior/magistrate courts managing misdemeanor and post-sentence caseloads with private contractors operating on a revenue-generating fee-schedule model where defendants pay monitoring costs on a sliding scale and jurisdictions subsidize indigent defendants.

Recent opportunities cluster in the Southeast and Southwest, with active solicitations from Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina. Tucson City Court posted RFP 270113 for Probation Monitoring and Home Detention Services with proposals due October 28, 2026, requiring 600-defendant capacity with bilingual on-site staff, $2 million general liability and $2 million cyber liability insurance, and FedRAMP or StateRAMP data hosting. Fulton County, Georgia solicited RFP 26RFP1653831A-JWT for Adult Misdemeanor Probation Supervision Services with a response date of October 6, 2026, setting MBE and FBE participation targets of 16.83% and 3.41% respectively, and evaluating on Project Plan (35%), Key Personnel Qualifications (25%), Relevant Experience (13%), Personnel Availability (10%), Local Preference (5%), Service Disabled Veterans Preference (2%), and Cost (10%). Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department issued RFQ 2692026221 for Electronic Monitoring Systems due October 28, 2026, spanning pre-trial and post-conviction adult and juvenile offender supervision with victim-tracking functionality for domestic violence cases. These contracts typically run one to two years with renewal options and reflect established procurement relationships; Fulton County's misdemeanor probation contract has operated under private management since 1999.