CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court is reporting promising early results from a new program that allows some youth arrested on gun charges to remain at home with electronic monitoring rather than being held in detention.

The Gun Reduction and Intervention Program is an option for youth who are arrested for certain weapons charges but who don’t necessarily pose a high enough risk to the community to require secure detention.

Instead, they can receive an electronic monitoring device and be sent home for the night, with the promise they’ll return to court in the morning for arraignment. At that point, a judge will decide whether they continue on monitoring or receive some other type of oversight.

It’s meant to fast-track their court process and also their access to interve

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