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PA: GPS tracking now moving forward for sex offenders

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

CBS Pittsburg: Pilot Program Uses GPS Technology To Track Sex Offenders: More than 1,100 registered sex offenders live and work in Allegheny County and 43 of them are now wearing monitoring devices as a condition of their parole. District Attorney Stephen Zappala blames the nature of the crime for the need to better track these offenders. “Because the psychology of the crime of the criminal actually is, they will re-offend and so we’re looking at persons who are recidivists,” Zappala said. The offenders are monitored by places like Guardian Protection Service. The system uses GPS technology. As long as the offenders stay in the inclusion area, they’re OK, but if they travel into an exclusion area, police are notified immediately...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on January 12, 2011 (boomark / email).