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S.F. to appeal federal ruling that suspended GPS ankle monitoring program

In a news conference outside the Hall of Justice, Sheriff Paul Miyamoto, Mayor London Breed, City Attorney David Chiu and District Attorney Brooke Jenkins blasted U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar’s February order, which gained new significance this week after Miyamoto cited it as the reason his office would suspend its monitoring program. Breed called the ankle monitoring an “important reform tool” that allows defendants that would otherwise be jailed have a second chance in their community while...