GPS Tracking Gets Cautious Endorsement
This falls a bit under the heading of the perfectly obvious, but then again it is a carefully considered legal opinion and has to be expressed a bit more cautiously than my usual enthusiastic views toward GPS Tracking:
GPS Tracking Gets Cautious Endorsement
Report says electronic monitoring of offenders must be more reliable
Global positioning systems can be “very valuable tools” for
monitoring the whereabouts of sex offenders and other people on
probation, but they should not be a substitute for personal supervision
by Connecticut probation officers.Those are among the findings of a state Judicial Branch report,
which also called into question the performance of a Florida-based
company the state has hired to monitor offenders using GPS technology.
The report said the state should open its own monitoring center to
enhance supervision of offenders…. Read more of Connecticut’s formal GPS tracking for offenders report.
I thought the recommendation that the state run its own monitoring center particularly appropriate. At first glance this seems to negate some of the savings possible using GPS offender monitoring. But the state currently has people on board to monitor these subjects before doing any GPS buildout. Careful re-use of employees will easily allow them to monitor under state control and still reap both benefits in accuracy (and publuic protection) as well as significnat cost savings.
I’ve show you recently how states can save on the order of 900% using GPS tracking for parolee’s and sunjects awaiitng trial.