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Wired Magazine
recently ran an article on Bob and Kirk Gable, the co-inventors of
the first electronic monitoring system, and how their vision for the
technology has not yet reached fruition.
Click here for the article.
The Cygnus Law Enforcement Group
recently presented the 2007 Innovation awards in conjunction with
the annual conference of the International Association of Chiefs of
Police.
In the Corrections Category, the award went to Omnilink for their
Focalpoint technology.
Click here for the article that appeared on
www.officer.com.
An Ohio State
Senator has introduced legislation that would allow for the
electronic monitoring of stalkers.
Click
here for the article that appeared in the Beacon
Journal.
The
Clarion Ledger
recently published an article on the use of GPS tracking technology
on juvenile offenders in Mississippi.
Click here for the article.
Tennessee’s
GPS tracking system for
sex offenders
is going state-wide.
Click here for the article that appeared
on
www.tricities.com.
An article in
the
Los Angeles Times
reports that hundreds of California sex offenders who are supposed
to be monitored for life under an initiative approved by voters last
year, are now unsupervised because the law does not detail who is
responsible for tracking them or how to pay for enforcement.
Click here for more information.
Actsoft’s
House Arrest Solution, a technology that combines location tracking
and alcohol monitoring, was recently featured on an episode of CSI:
Miami.
Click here for the article that appeared in the St.
Petersburg Times
A computer virus recently hit G4S Justice
Services’ systems and affected the continuity of their electronic
monitoring services.
Click here
for the article that appeared in
The Republican American.
The Scottish
government plans to scrap their electronic monitoring program for
pretrial offenders. The move is a result of a recent
evaluation report that found electronic tagging of people on bail
had failed to reduce the prison population, and cost more than
remanding them in jail.
Click
here for the article that appeared in The Scotsman. |
that verifies offender identity through photographs.
Have
a Happy Halloween!