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| Calif. finishes GPS project early |
| By The Orange County Register |
| Published: 01/12/2009 |
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CALIFORNIA - All 6,622 California sex offenders who are on state parole have been fitted with a GPS ankle bracelet, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said today. These ankle bracelets transmit their location to parole agents who monitor them, Schwarzenegger said in a news release. Agents also visit these individuals on a routine basis, he said. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation had originally projected that it would have every sex offender parolee under GPS monitoring by June, but was able to finish the job five months early, according to Schwarzenegger. In 2006, voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 83, known as Jessica's Law, which requires every paroled sex offender to be monitored by GPS. CDCR began using GPS to monitor sex offenders more than a year before Jessica's Law passed, according to Schwarzenegger. Jessica's Law has also had unintended consequences. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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