GPS Ankle Monitor Company, California County Avoid RICO Class

Criminal defendants in Alameda County, Calif., lost their bid June 6 for class status of extortion claims against the company that runs the county’s electronic-monitoring program.

The criminal defendants allege the company told certain program participants that they would be put in custody if they fell behind on their payments.

But it had no policy requiring or encouraging employees to threaten them, meaning the court would have to look at the threats on an individual basis, Judge William Alsup wrote for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Alameda County hired Leaders in Community Alternatives Inc. to ...