Committee hears presentation on electronic monitoring; two vendor contract extensions sent to full council

Denver City Council’s Safety, Housing, Education and Homelessness Committee heard a briefing on Wednesday about the city’s use of electronic monitoring for people on pretrial release and serving in‑home detention sentences, and considered two contract extensions for monitoring equipment vendors.

Councilwoman Serena Gonzalez Gutierrez, chair of the committee, opened the agenda item and invited Community Corrections staff to present. Greg Morrow, Director of Community Corrections, told the committee the meeting covered two action items: extending an existing contract with Alcohol Monitoring Systems (AMS) and extending a separate contract with B.I. Incorporated. “The first action item would amend, action item 17 95 would amend a contract with Alcohol Monitoring Systems, or AMS, by extending the term for 2 additional years, running us through January 30 first of 2027,” Morrow said. He said the B.I. Incorporated extension would also run through January 2027 and would add $1,650,000 to that contract “for a new total of 3,150,000.00.”

Aubrey Cote, a manager with Pretrial Services, described how the city uses several types of monitoring technology: active GPS ankle bracelets (used with exclusion and inclusion zones), remote breath devices that use facial recognition…