Tracking Sex Offenders via GPS for Life

ecmcn writes "According to Yahoo! news, the governor of Florida just passed a bill that, along with increasing the jail time served for convicted sex offenders, requires them to be tracked for life via GPS. No technical details about the tracking, but it mentions "warning authorities when a sex offender is someplace he shouldn't be". Maybe they can get Google maps to add red zones around all of the restricted areas."

Comments

And why do we let them go free?

[plover]

From TFA: It establishes a mandatory sentence of at least 25 years behind bars for people convicted of certain sex crimes against children 11 and younger, with lifetime tracking by global positioning satellite after they are freed.

Maybe I'm just not realistic about this, but why are we ever allowing child predators to go free, ever? I'm half-wondering what part of a civilized society even allows people like this to continue to consume food and oxygen?

I know that historically, the rich and powerful (especially amongst conquering armies) chose children as spoils of war. (And it still occurs in many third-world countries, especially amongst war orphans.) But why do we continue to allow this behavior to go mostly unpunished? What's wrong with us?

Re:Prevention

[Le Marteau]

because a fair amount of (ex)-sex offenders are being treated very unfairly, ie being discharged from jobs, being treated unfairly socially, and being harassed by neighbors.

That would be called 'karma', I believe.

How would you feel if you had to go to every door in your neighborhood, announce at nearly any sort of background check, that 10, 20, 30 years ago you made some huge mistake

I wouldn't. I would "Take the Big Trip" courtesy of my friends, Smith and Wesson. There comes a time when checking out is a good call, and being labeled by an already brutal society a 'sex offender' might be one of those times.