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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

California Leads the Way on GPS Monitoring of Sex Offenders

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) reported recently about a significant milestone reached as it successfully completed placing every High Risk Sex Offender (HRSO) parolee under its jurisdiction on global position satellite (GPS) monitoring.
California has clearly become the nation’s leader when it comes to tracking sex offenders via the [...]

Hoyle Introduces Bill for Lifelong GPS Monitoring of Sex Offenders

Sen. David Hoyle, D-Gaston, has introduced a bill that he hopes will supplement the proposed Jessica’s Law. His bill would require anyone convicted of molesting a child younger than 13 to submit to GPS monitoring for life.
“This is a one strike and you’re out,” Hoyle said.
The Shelby Star
David Hoyle is the man and [...]

Tri-City sex offenders being tracked with GPS

If four Tri-City sex offenders say their day was spent job hunting, yet they never left the couch, authorities will know.
And if they go near a schoolyard, community park or even their victim’s home, they will be caught.
That’s because wherever they go they are being recorded by global positioning satellites.
The offenders are [...]

Tracking Device-How about using GPS monitoring to stop batterers?

Last month, 26-year-old Rebecca Griego was shot and killed by her ex-boyfriend, Jonathan Rowan, as she sat in her administrative office at the University of Washington. Rowan had previously threatened to harm Griego, her sister, and their dogs, and she had gotten a restraining order. She’d also passed out pictures of [...]

More States Move to Use GPS Tracking of Sex Offenders

NEW YORK —  The crimes of convicted sex offenders are starting to haunt them … literally.
Many states are initiating programs that track registered sex offenders using Global Positioning Satellites, or GPS, sometimes for life. GPS can track the exact location of the offenders at all times, making it easier for law enforcement to [...]