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19 Feb 2008, 5:01 am
  Some wear bracelets that can be tracked by satellite and cell phone towers. [read post]
19 Feb 2008, 3:37 am
Some wear bracelets that can be tracked by satellite and cell phone towers. [read post]
1 Feb 2008, 8:27 pm
2-2-2008 North Carolina:In January 2007, the state started tracking dozens of sex offenders with satellites, anklets and belt-clip transmitters for the rest of their lives. [read post]
23 Jan 2008, 2:31 am
People drop their existing provider and go with the free service. [read post]
22 Jan 2008, 7:23 pm
Parole agents Price and Gibson -- they asked us not to use their first names -- use hand-held satellite tracking devices to measure distances.POLICE OFFICER: ... 220 yards.JEFFREY KAYE: The agents determined the parolee had to move. [read post]
14 Jan 2008, 4:57 am
"This is the sort of daft idea that comes up from the department every now and then, but tagging people in the same way we tag our pets cannot be the way ahead. [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 11:42 pm
Treating people like pieces of meat does not seem to represent an improvement in the system to me. [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 8:52 pm
"If we are prepared to track cars, why don't we track people? [read post]
17 Dec 2007, 8:18 am
The bill is being modeled after Florida's Jessica Lunsford Act.Jessica Lunsford was a 9-year-old Florida girl who was abducted, repeatedly raped and murdered in 2005 by a convicted pedophile who was a neighbor and worked as a mason's assistant during a building project at her school.The act's primary purpose was to enact a mandatory sentence of 25 years to life for people convicted of certain sex crimes against young children and lifetime tracking by global… [read post]
27 Nov 2007, 12:19 pm
"I think that is an extremely misleading perception that people have," he said. [read post]
21 Nov 2007, 4:01 pm by Phil Cameron
Destinations include remote deserts, mountaintops -- even the South Pole.Many of these travelers are engineering buffs, people who love nothing more than to gawk at the one-of-a-kind quirks of multimillion-dollar machines. [read post]
19 Nov 2007, 3:00 am
California has 2,300 Global Positioning System units for paroled sex offenders but plans to have10,000 for all parolees by June 2009, says Bill Sessa of the California Department of Corrections.Housing in Washington, D.C., is so expensive that a third of parolees lack permanent housing, and many homeless sex offenders considered high-risk are tracked with GPS devices, says Leonard Sipes, spokesman for the Court Services and Offenders Supervision Agency.Keeping track by… [read post]
18 Nov 2007, 5:29 pm
"What people don't realize is these offenders are in our communities," riding buses and walking around, she says. [read post]
13 Nov 2007, 4:31 am
“The numbers have always been elusive because the government has never tracked cable subscribership. [read post]
22 Oct 2007, 5:33 pm
Update: The Red Cross is maintaining a "Safe and Well" list on its Web site that's meant to act as a central bulletin board system for people who are trying to keep track of each other. [read post]
8 Oct 2007, 6:00 am
The point is to keep track of ongoing developments in a systematic fashion, and to enable people who are interested in taking action to stay constantly updated, Guevara says. [read post]
26 Sep 2007, 4:21 pm
Chris Gregoire has ordered the state to place more high-risk sex offenders under electronic surveillance, with hopes of fitting about 50 people with satellite tracking systems by mid-2008.Gregoire said she would spend about $400,000 from her emergency account to launch the program, with plans to recoup the money from the next Legislature.The first such offender was wearing a Global Positioning System device Wednesday morning, with four more expected to be subject to… [read post]
26 Sep 2007, 9:19 am
Linked to a global positioning satellite system, the monitor tracks a defendant's whereabouts and alerts authorities if he or she strays into forbidden areas.Hand also thinks the ankle monitor system can help the jail overcrowding situation and perhaps delay another major jail construction project for a few years.I'm glad folks in Waco are looking for incarceration alternatives, but personally I'm not a great fan of using GPS monitors so widely for low-level… [read post]
24 Sep 2007, 12:22 pm
There is no longer any defense available for these people. [read post]