Yesterday, the Coalition to End Money Bond and more than 40 organizations from across Cook County sent a letter to the Cook County Board of Commissioners to call on them to stop the expansion of electronic monitoring. Each year, Cook County spends more than $35 million on these programs even though they provide no meaningful benefit to public safety. The vast majority of people on the program appear at all of their court dates and less than 1% are rearrested for allegations of violence, proving they could be safely released without these restrictive conditions. These findings mirror research from jurisdictions across the country that have found that electronic monitoring has no material impact on re-arrest rates of people awaiting trial or rates of court appearances.  Instead of investing more money into electronic monitoring, we implore the county to reduce its use of this harmful technology. Cook County will be a safer place when fewer people are subjected to this extreme pretrial punishment.