GPS monitoring for probation and pretrial, without the ankle monitor
Electronic monitoring from the participant's smartphone: continuous GPS monitoring, geofencing, curfew verification, and association tracking. Nothing to fit, charge, or replace. How it compares: smartphone-based supervision, explained.
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The Monitoring Problem
Ankle monitors track location, but they create as many problems as they solve. Agencies need a better way.
Ankle Monitors Cost 5x More
Per-individual monitoring costs with physical devices are up to five times higher than smartphone-based alternatives, with hardware fees, installation appointments, and maintenance overhead.
Devices Create Real Barriers
Physical ankle monitors create employment barriers, housing challenges, and social stigma for participants trying to reintegrate. They signal punishment, not supervision.
GPS-Only Shows WHERE, Not WHO or WHY
Traditional GPS monitoring shows a dot on a map. It can't tell you who a participant is spending time with, whether their patterns are changing, or what those changes mean.
No Association Intelligence
Traditional monitoring tools have no way to detect association patterns, hot spots, or behavioral changes tied to location. Officers are left guessing about context.
How It Works
Enroll
Participant downloads the RePath app. No hardware. No installation appointment. No device fees. Enrollment takes minutes, not hours.
Monitor
Continuous GPS location captured through the smartphone. Officers see real-time location, historical tracks, and movement patterns on the dashboard.
Set Boundaries
Create inclusion zones (home, work, treatment) and exclusion zones (victim addresses, restricted areas). Get automatic alerts on violations.
Analyze
People & Places analytics reveal location patterns, behavioral trends, and changes over time. Association flagging identifies potential risk connections that traditional monitoring misses.
Everything an ankle monitor does. Plus everything it can't.
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People & Places analytics reveal where participants spend time, how patterns change, and what locations matter most.
Location frequency and duration for each known address
Heat map of movement patterns across your jurisdiction
Capabilities
Continuous GPS Tracking
Real-time location monitoring via smartphone. No ankle monitor required. Track movement patterns 24/7 with location captured at every check-in and continuously throughout the day.
Inclusion & Exclusion Zones
Define approved and restricted areas for each participant. Automatic alerts when boundaries are crossed. Set zones around victim addresses, schools, workplaces, treatment facilities, or any custom location.
People & Places Analytics
See week-over-week trends on where participants spend time. Track employment consistency, time at home, and recreational patterns. Identify associations with known risk locations or individuals.
On-Demand Location Pull
Officers can pull a participant's current location at any time. Instant response. No need to wait for the next scheduled check-in. A critical tool for field officers and compliance checks.
Curfew Verification
Automated curfew monitoring. Know who is breaking curfew, when they leave, and where they go. Replaces manual drive-by checks with continuous digital verification.
Association & Hot Spot Flagging
Identifies behavioral patterns and associations that traditional GPS monitoring can't detect. Surface risk connections that ankle monitors simply cannot provide.
Results from the Field
Real data from Missouri's statewide RePath location services deployment.
1 complaint received across the entire state. The complaint was that RePath reported the event too quickly.
Nothing for the participant to pay. One rural county has lost one rental phone in the life of its program, against $2,500 for every monitor it used to lose.
Built Into Every Check-In
Every biometric check-in captures the participant's verified identity and GPS location simultaneously. Location data isn't a separate system to manage, it's woven into the daily supervision workflow that's already happening.
What Officers Say
We may have known they weren't where they were supposed to be, but there was no way to prove it. Now we can.
We have just been so shocked at how many people will still do things they are not supposed to do and keep their phone on them, which means we see it via RePath.
RePath has finally allowed me to figure out what is going on with this guy since we cannot afford any more ankle monitors.
This would not have been possible with any other application.
I love the map feature. I've caught so many people out of state without a permit. I even caught one guy out of the country recently.
Works With Your Entire RePath Platform
Where agencies use GPS from the phone
Questions about GPS monitoring for probation
How much does GPS monitoring for probation cost?
An ankle monitor often runs about $300 a month, frequently charged to the person, plus about $2,500 for every device that doesn't come back. RePath is priced per officer at about one fifth the cost of an ankle monitor, and the participant pays nothing. The full comparison is on RePath vs ankle monitors.
Is smartphone GPS monitoring reliable enough for court?
Agencies use it in court. In one Texas case a youth was on an ankle monitor and RePath at the same time. The monitor reported a violation, RePath showed it was wrong, and the judge said so in open court.
Can it enforce curfew and exclusion zones?
Yes. Officers set inclusion zones like home, work and treatment, and exclusion zones like a victim's address. RePath alerts when someone crosses one or misses curfew, and officers can pull a current location on demand.
What about people without a smartphone?
They can report by email, so the program leaves no one out. In one rural Missouri circuit, 95% of the pretrial population is on RePath.
What are the best GPS tracking tools for probation officers?
The ones officers check. Continuous GPS monitoring from the participant's phone, with zones that warn the participant before they violate, a map the officer can open from a violation alert, and location history that holds up in court. One location record put a participant at the scene of an armed robbery when the doorbell footage was too blurry to hold up.
How does GPS tracking work for people on probation?
The RePath app records location points from the phone and shows them to the officer with time stamps, zones and the people and places around them. The participant sees their own zones and gets a warning before crossing one. No ankle device, nothing to charge beyond the phone they already carry.
See Location Intelligence in Action
Everything an ankle monitor does, plus everything it can't. At 1/5th the cost, and nothing for the participant to pay.
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