- The Crisafulli Government has delivered stronger youth bail monitoring laws to restore safety where you live.
- Reforms will protect the community and mean youth offenders on bail can have their location tracked 24/7 to reduce reoffending and victim numbers.
- The Crisafulli Government has delivered a 7.2 per cent reduction in the number of victims of crime across Queensland in 2025, compared to the final year of Labor's decade of decline.
- Changes are part of the Crisafulli Government's commitment to deliver safety where you live with stronger laws, more police, early intervention and rehabilitation to break the cycle of crime.
The Crisafulli Government is restoring safety where you live with strong new youth bail monitoring laws passed in Parliament today.
The Youth Justice (Electronic Monitoring) Amendment Bill 2025 makes electronic monitoring for youth on bail permanent and statewide, putting GPS trackers on more youth offenders.
The new laws mean courts can impose a GPS device as a bail condition for any youth offender aged 10-17, including first-time offenders, and is another way the Crisafulli Government is restoring safety where you live after Labor's Youth Crime Crisis.
The Bill delivers some of the strongest youth bail monitoring laws in the country and is another step towards delivering on our promise to make Queensland safer and fight Labor's Youth Crime Crisis after a decade of the former Government's weak laws.
These reforms follow the former Labor Government's two botched GPS monitoring trials, that only saw four youth offenders fitted with a device in the first year.
Electronic monitoring devices have been found to reduce the likelihood of reoffending by 24 percent.
The Crisafulli Government is restoring safety where you live with stronger laws to restore consequences for actions, more police, early intervention and rehabilitation.
Minister for Youth Justice and Victim Support Laura Gerber said the tough new laws would reduce reoffending and drive down victim numbers.
"The former Labor Government continuously weakened youth crime laws, made detention a last resort, abolished breach of bail as an offence and created a generation of serious repeat offenders," Minister Gerber said.
"We promised Queenslanders we would continue to strengthen youth crime laws to restore safety and that's exactly what we are doing.
"By putting more GPS trackers on youth offenders on bail, alongside intensive support services, we will reduce reoffending, have fewer victims of crime and safer communities."
