gozgals
Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 2892 Location: A Place Called Vertigo
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Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 4:14 am Post subject: Sex offender kills teen while under GPS monitoring |
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I left this for Rd since he knows about these devices and pushes them. I guess they could not monitor what the dirtbag was doing while he was wearing the GPS unit. So very sad.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/12/sex.offender.gps/index.html
Fair use
Sex offender kills teen while under GPS monitoring, police say
By Eliott C. McLaughlin and Patrick Oppmann
CNN
March 12, 09
VANCOUVER, Washington (CNN) -- When 13-year-old Alycia Nipp didn't come home from a trip to Wal-Mart, her family had no idea where she was, but a tracking device was transmitting the location of her alleged killer.
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The slaying rocked the enclave of Hazel Dell in Vancouver, a 15-minute drive from Portland, Oregon, and serves as fodder for those who claim GPS is used too broadly and bluntly as a tool for keeping tabs on offenders.
"They can't monitor it live, and even if you could monitor it live, him being in the field wouldn't have told you [if] he was murdering the girl," said Evan Mayo-Wilson, an Oxford University lecturer who has studied the use of GPS.
There are two types of GPS monitoring: active, in which the offender's whereabouts are surveyed in real-time, and passive, in which probation or parole officers check an offender's movements after the fact.
Sanford was passively monitored, said Anmarie Aylward, the Washington DOC's program administrator.
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