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

Re:Civil Liberties

[winkydink]

RTFA. The law specifically targets those who have sex with a child under age 11.

Re:Uh... a bit severe, no?

[lliiffee]

Ignoring item b) (which would seem to justify not punishing anyone for anything, ever. Do you seriously think that courts of law frequently convict people of sex-crimes soley on the basis one person's word, with no additional evidence?) one would think that in the context of the above article it was obvious that I was refering to sexual predators of the type who molest children. Don't distract from the issue by feigning ignorance. Did you read the article? These people do not reform, and releasing them puts the rest of society in danger. These people should be locked up for life, and I don't see how anyone can argue that.

Re:Wouldn't it be easier to just TAG THE KIDS?

[arminw]

...Too convenient to always know where everyone (kids, criminals, employees) is...

Not only knowing WHERE a person is, but also WHAT they buy and WHOM they associate with and who knows what else. This sort of thing was predicted in the Bible almost 2000 years ago. For centuries scholars have played guessing games as to how anyone could "not buy or sell unless they had a mark on their forehead or hand". With modern technology this will soon be a reality that will surely come to fulfillment and is no longer subject to guessing how this can be done.