Some Sex Offenders Tracked for Life!!!!

[Jeana (DP)]

And that's why the ACLU isn't useless. We need them to help determine where these lines are to be drawn.

Nahhhhh. They were never serious about doing it. They were just tossing around ideas. Maybe the ACLU can come up with some suggestions though instead of worry about how to make NAMBLA more efficient.

 

[mysteriew]

I am glad they are doing it. No it is not foolproof in keeping them away from kids. But no system short of putting them in prison for life, is perfect. And the GPS way will only be as good as the implementation of it. Specifically, the monitoring of the GPS. But combined with the civil committment for the worst of the worst, it is a step forward.

 

[dark_shadows]

I posted this thread on june 1st.Has there been any response in any other states besides Wisconsin?






Massachusetts adopted the GPS technology after the January 2004 slayings of a Woburn woman and her 12-year-old daughter. Accused of the killings is Michael J. Bizanowicz, a convicted sex offender who had registered in Lowell but spent much of his time in Woburn, where he was not registered.
Last year, when Governor Mitt Romney signed into law the use of GPS tracking, he said he wanted to force offenders like Bizanowicz to register as sex offenders where they live. Massachusetts, he said, should become a sex offenders' ''worst nightmare."

Florida became the first state to track the movements of some of its sex offenders with GPS devices in 1997; since then, the practice has been adopted by correction officials in more than 30 states.

news link

 

[GlitchWizard]

As long as it's reserved for the worst of the worst - I'm agreeable to anything. Even the Death Penalty for child predators.

I guess I just don't have enough faith in the system to believe anything is reserved for just those worst offenders.

 

[cammy-g]

Three letters AMW.... last weekend they showed an ankle bracelet being cut off, I recall it took less than three seconds. I have no clue why some people all all excited about a system born to fail.

 

[GlitchWizard]

Maybe they could put cyanide capsules in the ankle thing. If they try to cut it off, they will be killed immediately. Works for me.

 

[Jeana (DP)]

Maybe they could put cyanide capsules in the ankle thing. If they try to cut it off, they will be killed immediately. Works for me.

That's the best idea I've ever heard~!!

 

[SewingDeb]

Maybe they could put cyanide capsules in the ankle thing. If they try to cut it off, they will be killed immediately. Works for me.

Love it! Great idea. Maybe we should all write our representatives with this idea.

 

[BillyGoatGruff]

I should hope so. GPS-tracking a child molester is one thing (and I do hope they limit the program to violent offenders and don't start tagging every college kid who pees behind a bush).

But GPS-tracking invited (and presumably necessary) workers? Why not GPS-track everyone then, as long as we're tracking innocent people?

Well, if you have a active cell phone on your person (whether you're using it or not), you can be tracked via GPS at any given time.

 

[GlitchWizard]

Some phones do have this ability. I recall hearing a kidnapped child had one on him and the company didn't track it because of some "permission" that was needed to track it.

I don't think my cellphone can be tracked from gps - only what tower it is signaling from. I wish my daughter's could be. Just in case.