Deputy Brenda Carrera García, from the Morena bench, is promoting an initiative in the Congress of Jalisco that proposes the installation of electronic tracking and monitoring devices for repeat offenders of domestic violence and partner violence. This initiative arises in response to the consideration of a State as "ineffective and incompetent" to address the issue of gender-based violence in the entity, which currently ranks third nationally in cases of femicide.
According to Carrera García, so far in 2025, Jalisco has registered 1,098 reports of domestic violence, although this figure does not include cases that are not reported to the authorities, which constitute more than 80% due to fear of retaliation from the aggressors.
The main objective of the initiative is to prevent cases of women suffering violence from their partners from ending in femicides, recalling that 9 out of 10 of these cases go unpunished. To achieve this, it is proposed to reform the National Code of Criminal Procedure so that repeat offenders face their judicial processes while free with electronic monitoring and tracking devices that allow authorities to know the exact location of the aggressor and prevent them from approaching the victim.
The deputy mentioned that this proposal had been presented in 2021 to the Secretariat of Substantive Equality between Women and Men by civil organizations, but it was not taken into account. She emphasized the importance of moving from shock in the face of acts of violence to preventive action.
In the context of this initiative, the case of the femicide of Astrid Cruz and the murder of her son at the hands of a repeat offender evading justice was revisited. A modification to the National Code of Criminal Procedure is proposed to require repeat offenders to use monitoring and tracking devices as a preventive measure against gender-based violence and femicides.
