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Washington legislature considering chip implants for sex offenders

By Douglas A. Berman

Among lots of good new posts at Sex Crimes is a link to this local story reporting on legislative consideration of going one technocorrections step beyond GPS tracking of sex offenders.  The piece is headlined "Lawmakers consider implanted chips for tracking sex offenders," and here is how it starts: Lawmakers are considering a controversial bill that would outfit sex offenders with a surgically-implanted device that tracks their movement. The devices would replace the ankle bracelets that are currently used to track offenders. The bracelets have been criticized as a lacking device as offenders have successfully removed them in the past before disappearing off of the radar. "(The devices would) be a little more difficult to take off," said Rep...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 20, 2009 (boomark / email).