Three ways to improve your Ankle Monitor condition

Being under an Ankle Monitor restriction can time to time trap you into a certain mindset. Thoughts get crowded with worries and concerns that lead to nowhere positive. Although having an Ankle Monitor may feel nothing good can happen, the fact is there is always a way to improve your situation.

This article will look into the Ankle Monitor challenges from a domain perspective to help you understand your challenges and how to resolve them.

The Domain of Challenges

The origin of any Ankle Monitor challenge can be categorized into one of the three domains. The domains are: Personal, Supervision Program, and Court.

Think of these domains as layers of circles where the center circle being the Personal domain and the outer circle being the Court domain. The Court domain is the foundation of all challenges because the Ankle Monitor restrictions originate from the court order. The size and complexity of the challenge decrease toward the inner and increase toward the outer domain. Resolving the outer domain challenge can lead to resolving a certain set of inner domain challenges.

Personal Domain

The Personal domain contains the most challenges, which are often easier to resolve. Common challenges that belong in this domain are:

• Hide the Ankle Monitor in public.
• Set a daily routine according to the curfew.
• Stabilize the Ankle Monitor to avoid physical damage.

Personal domain challenges can be considered as challenges that can be resolved by the person who is wearing the Ankle Monitor. A challenge of hiding the Ankle Monitor when being in public can be resolved by wearing long jeans.

Some personal domain challenges can cause mental and emotional problems. For example, if you are feeling unhappy because you are staying home thinking about the places you cannot go to, you do still have the option to appreciate the fact that you have the freedom to explore your local area.

Supervision Program Domain

The middle layer is the Supervision Program Domain. As the name indicates, challenges that can be resolved by your Supervision Officer belongs to this domain.

Some challenges that are associated with this domain are:

• Extend the curfew schedule.
• Expand the local area allowed to access.
• Waive the Ankle Monitor fee.

The main difference between the Personal domain and the Supervision Program domain is, that any Supervision Program domain challenges cannot be resolved by the person who's wearing the Ankle Monitor. As an individual, you can only request for a modification or reduction of restriction, while the decision is up to the Supervision Officer.

Being able to resolve a challenge in this domain can have a larger positive impact. One scenario can be, that being granted to extend the curfew schedule from 7 pm to 11 pm will allow working overtime leading to a better income.

This article explains the instruction to request your Supervision Officer for less restriction.

Court Domain

The outer layer is the Court Domain. The entirety of the Ankle Monitor restriction is ordered by the Court and they have the most influence. Challenges that can be resolved by the Court are:

• Remove the Ankle Monitor device.
• Allow entering different states/countries.
• Reduce the term length of wearing the Ankle Monitor.

While resolving challenges that belong to this domain has the highest reward out of all, the amount of time and effort required for resolution is also the largest. The probability of success depends on wider dynamics.

Some of the reasons challenges in this domain are considered difficult to resolve are:

• You are required to submit a motion.
• you are required to schedule a hearing.
• You may need to hire an attorney.
• Your judge must grant the permission.
• Your prosecutor and supervision officer may be against your request.
• The court process may take several months or longer.
• You are required to pay the court fee.
• You must be fully compliant with all current orders.