--- title: Former New York Mayor Calls for Tags for People on Watchlist description: Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said he supports the idea of people on terrorism watch lists wearing electronic monitoring bracelets. canonical: https://time.com/4427214/rudy-giuliani-electronic-monitoring/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-27T21:20:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T23:35:57.527Z article:section: Politics og:title: Former New York Mayor Calls for Tags for People on Watchlist og:description: "I would think that's an excellent idea." og:url: https://time.com/4427214/rudy-giuliani-electronic-monitoring/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt85e2e5b0641e5af1/69889c73a988ca80076b8ab3/rudy-giuliani1.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani delivers a speech on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Former New York Mayor Calls for Tags for People on Watchlist twitter:description: "I would think that's an excellent idea." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt85e2e5b0641e5af1/69889c73a988ca80076b8ab3/rudy-giuliani1.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Former New York Mayor Calls for Electronic Monitoring of Watch List > Sponsored content. 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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani delivers a speech on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.Joe Raedle—Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jul 27, 2016 9:20 PM UTC Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday that he supports the idea of people on federal terrorism watch lists wearing electronic monitoring bracelets or tags. “I would think that’s an excellent idea,” Giuliani said, [NJ Advance Media reported](http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/07/trump%5Fadviser%5Fgiuliani%5Fcalls%5Ffor%5Felectronic%5Fmonito.html). “If you’re on the terror watch list, I should you know you’re on the terror watch list. You’re on there for a reason.” Giuliani, who [spoke at the Republican national convention](http://time.com/4412059/republican-convention-rudy-giuliani-transcript-video/) last week, is currently advising Republican nominee Donald Trump’s campaign. He was in Philadelphia as part of an effort to bring Republicans to speak outside the Democratic national convention. On Tuesday, French authorities [identified a man](http://www.wsj.com/articles/one-hostage-dead-two-attackers-killed-after-assault-on-church-in-france-police-say-1469525653) who killed a Catholic priest during mass as an Islamic State supporter who was released from prison on the condition that he wear an electronic monitoring bracelet. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4427214/rudy-giuliani-electronic-monitoring/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4427214/rudy-giuliani-electronic-monitoring/"},"headline":"Former New York Mayor Calls for Electronic Monitoring of Watch List","datePublished":"2016-07-27T21:20:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T23:35:57.527Z","description":"Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said he supports the idea of people on terrorism watch lists wearing electronic monitoring bracelets.","url":"https://time.com/4427214/rudy-giuliani-electronic-monitoring/","keywords":["rudy giuliani","Hillary Clinton","Donald Trump","Republican National Convention","Democratic National Convention"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt85e2e5b0641e5af1/69889c73a988ca80076b8ab3/rudy-giuliani1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt85e2e5b0641e5af1/69889c73a988ca80076b8ab3/rudy-giuliani1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani delivers a speech on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.","caption":"Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani delivers a speech on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.","creditText":"Joe Raedle—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/rudy-giuliani/","name":"rudy giuliani"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4427214/rudy-giuliani-electronic-monitoring/","name":"Former New York Mayor Calls for Electronic Monitoring of Watch List"}}]}] ```