GPS Has New Function: Helping Police Track Criminals

By Jason Szep

May 20, 2008 7:23AM
 

Coast to coast, the authorities are expanding electronic monitoring to fight crime. They are moving beyond its early use in tracking movements of sex offenders to include gang members who have been released on probation, people accused of repeated violence against women and even truant students at schools.
Electronic surveillance [...]

GPS helping U.S. keep track of high-risk offenders

BOSTON: Electronic surveillance technology is changing the way the authorities in the United States monitor repeat offenders. Its advocates say the new technology can save lives. Its detractors fear a widening breach of civil liberties and an illusory sense of protection.
Coast to coast, the authorities are expanding electronic monitoring to fight crime. They are moving beyond [...]

Panels Examine GPS Tracking of Domestic Batterers

Issue date: 3/6/08 Section: News
Several students, judges, and professionals spoke at the law school on Friday, Februaru 29, at the Coalition on Gender Violence’s conference on GPS tracking of domestic batterers. The discussion was centered around a recent piece of Massachusetts legislation that authorized the use of GPS tracking of convicted batterers in order to [...]

Former youth pastor sent to prison; given lifetime probation

By Vanessa Miller (Contact)
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

CORRECTION (5/30/08): In this story, Boulder District Judge D.D. Mallard was misquoted. In referring to Peter Kim, she said, “He was the adult. He was the one who committed the crimes.”
Years after first being arrested on suspicion of sexual assault on a child, a Longmont youth pastor Wednesday was [...]

Bill requiring sex offenders submit to lifetime GPS monitoring passes Senate

Tuesday, Jul 1 2008, 11:59 pm
Barry Smith

RALEIGH – A bill requiring adults who molest children to submit to lifetime GPS monitoring unanimously cleared the Senate on Tuesday.
The bill, sponsored by Sen. David Hoyle, D-Gaston, also makes it a misdemeanor to tamper with a GPS device. The monitoring requirement would be retroactive and would apply to [...]

Who’s watching the GPS that’s monitoring ex-convicts?

Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Phillip Morris
Plain Dealer Columnist

The woman on the other end of the line spoke ner vously as she explained why I couldn’t print her name or the Cleveland suburb she intends to relocate to next month.
She clearly wanted to talk. She initiated our call. She identified herself. But her anonymity demand was non-negotiable.
“I’m [...]

Stalkers may get wired

Device could warn of nearby restraining-order violator
Saturday, July 05, 2008
BY ART AISNER
The Ann Arbor News

Keeping tabs on accused stalkers and batterers could get a lot more high-tech.
Until now, defendants were prevented only by a judge’s order from contacting their victims.
But if Gov. Jennifer Granholm signs a bill recently approved unanimously by the State Senate, [...]

Jessica’s Law works

The author of Proposition 83 objects to a Times’ editorial claiming that the sex offender law is unworkable.
By George Runner
It’s been a little more than one year since California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 83, known as “Jessica’s Law,” a measure that strengthens sex offender laws and makes our neighborhoods safer.
As one of the authors of [...]

Frisco firm creating system to find wandering Alzheimer’s patients

Cellular bracelets may help locate those who wander or become lost  
Jim Nalley’s heart breaks when he hears of a tragedy like Elizabeth Richards’.

The 89-year-old Bedford woman was found dead in her locked car along a rural Oklahoma highway last year, a week after her family reported her missing. Authorities say she apparently became disoriented [...]

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