Here we have a vendor who is misleading the public, in that, he sells his product under the premise that all sex crimes are committed in places that can be protected. i.e., such as a park, school, etc. Electronic fences can be programmed around such places, but cannot be programmed to cover every bedroom of every child in the nation. i.e., Jessica Lunsford crime. And, cannot be programmed to follow children home from school. i.e., Sarah Foxwell crime. Simply stated, whether a GPS system is real time or not, does not address the real circumstances of sex crimes, or other crimes.4-3-2010 California:
The murder of 17-year-old Chelsea King, allegedly by a registered sex offender, has generated calls for tougher laws dealing with convicted criminals.
One change being discussed is real-time GPS monitoring for sex offenders. A company called GPS Monitoring Solutions says it’s come up with a device.
It’s called the Tracker Pal, and if a sexual offender wearing this GPS device goes near a park or a school.
Petra Fuhriman with GPS Monitoring Solutions says her product comes equipped with straps that can’t be cut.
On Wednesday, Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher asked the corrections department about a discrepancy that prohibits a sexual offender on parole from living near a park, yet nothing stops that predator from hanging out in the same park every day.
Crime victim advocate Bonnie Russel attended that meeting.
“My definition of monitoring would be 24/7. Apparently the state has a substandard definition of monitoring,” Russel said.
News 8 took the Tracker Pal for a walk, and as we moved away from a local park, blue dots on a GPS tracking screen showed us moving away from children.
Under the current system, parole officers in the state of California are checking up on sexual offenders once a day, but using the Tracker Pal system, there is a service center in Utah that would follow their movements every five minutes.
With the Tracker Pal, if a sex offender wearing their GPS device gets too close to a restricted area, an alarm sounds.
“A siren can go off on the alarm, alerting everyone around the offender,” Fuhriman said.
News 8 tested the device, and not only did the alarm go off, but the service center calls us directly and will notify a parole officer about the violation.
The corrections department spends about $20 a day tracking parolees. GPS Monitoring Solutions says it can do a much better job for $12 a day. ..Source.. GPS Monitoring Solutions
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I'll keep saying this till the people in California understand what when wrong:
The murder of Chelsea King is ultimately California's fault.
The California Parole Board KNEW, THEY KNEW, THEY HAD KNOWLEDGE THAT Gardner (if released) would commit another sex crime.
BUT.........The California Parole Board let Gardner go anyway. Even when the prison had knowledge of this. You can't find it now as Gardner's prison record has conveniently been destroyed.
If CALIFORNIA'S PAROLE BOARD had listened to the mental health professionals, Chelsea King would still be alive today.
The death of Chelsea King is NOT the fault of "every sex offender" in California or this nation.
CALIFORNIA IS TO BLAME FOR THE DEATH OF CHELSEA KING.
Wrong statement at the top...but everyone has the right to an opinion.
This was a 3 hour interview, talking about all types of parolees. Naturally the news just picks out what's most juicy to them and their ratings. It is common knowledge that most sex crimes occur in private places and not at parks, schools, etc.
The coverage was nearly focusing on the fact that offenders are not being monitored as they should be and that there are ways to help with that issue.
The entire spin in the news was around parole issues and their monitoring,nothing else.
The news also stated mis-information about the straps, as clearly noted on the media page of GPS Monitoring Solutions.
It makes me sick to listen and read these things. So many people stand up against racism and descrimination and how u do that is by generalization. To assume that because one person of the oppisite color of you did something they all do. WHAT BS!!!! So to classify all sex offendors the same is support the same thing we suppsoedly are against. Not all of sex offense even invole any sexual act at all. The country has gotten so out of hand that it is legal for the police to intrap somebody tempting them and lureing them with sex and the sending them to jail for saying yes. WAKE up that's wrong. With that said I would also like to say sex offensive are WRONG. Disgusting and should and are being puinished. The satistics said 5 percent re-offend in 3 yrs of release. What about the statstics of meth user re-offense 56 percent of reoffenses are violent offenders. So to the junky who muggs your mom leaveing the grocery store so they can enough money for a bump. Ect ect they are all wrong but people can change.
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