What happens if I don’t wear or disable my GPS tracker?

If you are on parole and do not comply with a GPS requirement, your parole can be revoked. If you do not report on time to get your GPS device, your revocation term will be 180 days unless the court decides that such a term is not appropriate; and if you disable or remove your GPS device, your revocation term will be 180 days.[538] After you are off parole, the law does not specify any punishment if you do not comply with the purportedly “life-long” GPS requirement.[539]

  1. 538

    Cal. Penal Code § 3010.10(d)-(e).

  2. 539

    In an interesting development, the U.S. Supreme Court held that forcing a person to wear a GPS device for life constitutes a “search” under the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment. The Court sent the case back to the state courts to rule on whether such a requirement is unreasonable. Grady v. North Carolina (2015) __ U.S.__; 135 S.Ct.1368.