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| GPS monitors paroled sex offenders |
| By Los Angeles Times |
| Published: 01/14/2009 |
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CALIFORNIA - State corrections officials announced today that a majority of paroled sex offenders in California are being monitored by GPS technology. The agency reports that 6,622 sex offenders have been fitted with GPS ankle bracelets, allowing their parole agents to immediately locate them. The broad use of monitoring technology is an outgrowth of Proposition 83, or Jessica's Law, which was passed in 2006 by state voters. It required every offender to be outfitted with the technology. The state is home to about 70,000 sex offenders. Nearly 11,000 parolees are under the jurisdiction of the state Department of Corrections. Those parolees without GPS monitoring systems are either in police custody or awaiting some kind of judicial hearing. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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