My son is on home monitoring instead of a jail sentence, why is it you can't have a computer online a rule?

Question

Home monitoring is alternative to jail time. I want to know if they could tell if you did hook up to the internet while on this monitor. They tellyou not have an answering machine, or computer on the same line as the montior.

Answer 1

So, your son committed a crime, gets sentenced to a vacation at home, and is whining he cannot have a computer? How about just being glad that he got off so easy, doing his vacation time, and then NOT commiting any more crimes in the future?

Answer 2

Because the home monitoring equipment is run through the phone line. The host computer calls the monitor at your house to get the information it needs. I.E. When you son leaves the house, comes home ect. If the phone line is busy then the equipment will not work, and violations will happen. The system can not work properly with the line hooked up to the Internet. The home detention equipment is a computer system itself.



Yes they can tell if you are hooking up to the Internet. The results would be rather painful for your son. He would be in violation of his home detention. The Host could not locate your son so to speak. In our state that is an automatic warrant and arrest. Time is then serve in Jail with additional time added for violation.

Answer 3

I think (but don't know) that the home monitoring system relies on phone contact to check you're at home; that is, they ring your home and tell your son to verify he's there (by some kind of bracelet or the like, if I remember correctly). The rule is probably because a computer on dial-up could interfere with the calls - as with the answering machine.



As to whether they can tell - well, you'd imagine a separate phone line would fox them, or any broadband system where the phone line's connectivity isn't impaired.



But is it worth trying to game the system when you look at the alternative?

Answer 4

I partially agree with Ross b, concerning locking up the phone system with dial up. I believe if you have another line added to his area temporarily would help you. I wonder what they would say to my family, my house phone is connected to satellite with my Internet system? I could still get phone calls during communication.

Answer 5

Maybe your son is a pervert and part of his rehabilitation was not having access to kids on the internet. He just made up the other BS.