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California struggling with new challenges posed by GPS technocorrections

By Douglas A. Berman

Regular readers know that I view technocorrections like GPS tracking as a common punishment of the future, and that is one reason I find especially notable this local piece detailing California's problems with this form of technocorrections now.  The piece is headlined "Sex offenders unwatched as parole struggles with GPS system," and here are excerpts: Two special reports by the state Office of the Inspector General found Corrections' GPS policies were confused at best and non-existent at worst. The full technological abilities of the system aren't being used, agents and supervisors aren't properly trained and agents are so overloaded with GPS busy work they aren't able to do other vitally important checks in the field, according to the reports...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 19, 2010 (boomark / email).