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California Tracks Parolees With GPS, Then Ignores Alerts

Posted by Soulskill on from the put-google-on-the-case dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Several years ago, California decided to require high-risk parolees, such as gang members and sex offenders, to wear GPS monitoring devices. The idea was to relay location information to law enforcement to ensure that the convicts stay where they're supposed to. Unfortunately, the state often misses acting on those alerts, making the devices both a lesson in the pitfalls of technology management and a massive exercise in largely useless spending."

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  1. Re:Won't somebody think of the children! by ArsenneLupin · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Even if nobody acts on the alarms, there's still a log file.

    So if a crime is committed somewhere, it will be relatively easy to check whether any of the paroled felons were in the vicinity when it happened.

    So, deterrence factor against committing further crimes will still exist.