Texas Code of Criminal Procedure 42A.507 – Community Supervision for Certain Defendants Identified as Members of Criminal Street Gangs; Electronic Monitoring
(a) This article applies only to a defendant who:
(1) is identified as a member of a criminal street gang in an intelligence database established under Chapter 67; and
(2) has two or more times been previously convicted of, or received a grant of deferred adjudication community supervision or another functionally equivalent form of community supervision or probation for, a felony offense under the laws of this state, another state, or the United States.
(b) A court granting community supervision to a defendant described by Subsection (a) may, on the defendant’s conviction of a felony offense, require as a condition of community supervision that the defendant submit to tracking under an electronic monitoring service or other appropriate technological service designed to track a person‘s location.
Terms Used In Texas Code of Criminal Procedure 42A.507
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
- United States: includes a department, bureau, or other agency of the United States of America. See Texas Government Code 311.005