Chicago authorities report that nearly 1 in 12 defendants released on pretrial ankle monitors have gone absent without leave (AWOL). According to the accounts from multiple outlets, the city’s monitoring program includes hundreds of people accused of serious violent offenses, and a subset cannot be accounted for during monitoring checks. One outlet states that 246 defendants are missing and unaccounted for, describing the scope of the issue as affecting the pretrial population on electronic monitoring. Both sources say that many of those still enrolled in the program face allegations involving violent crimes, including murder, attempted murder, and sexual assault. The reporting attributes the figures to authorities and describes the missing individuals as unaccounted for rather than providing additional details about whether they are considered fugitives or how long they have been missing. No source cited here reports a specific cause or timeline for the disappearances, or the number of arrests or recoveries that may have occurred. The accounts focus primarily on the scale of the AWOL problem and the seriousness of charges among participants.