[bryanthompson]

About damn time. How many high-risk convicted sex offenders have to kill again before this becomes reality? If I had kids, I'd want some sort of alarm to go off when one of these guys' GPS signals was within 100 yards of my house.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/29/AR2005072901154_pf.html

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Technology that helps the military align targets and motorists find their way is being tapped to track some sex offenders forever.

Spurred by headlines of released sex offenders accused of murder, some states are mandating use of the Global Positioning System for tracking. Many lawmakers see electronic monitoring as a natural evolution of statutes that already require sex offenders to register their addresses with authorities.

At least four states _ Florida, Missouri, Ohio and Oklahoma _ passed laws this year requiring lifetime electronic monitoring for some sex offenders, even if their sentences would normally have expired. Similar bills have been proposed in Congress and other states, including North Dakota and Alabama, where lawmakers this week approved legislation and sent it to the governor.
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"I think the general public is really not terribly confident that we're getting it right when it comes to pedophiles _ that this individual case-by-case approach is leading to some very horrific situations," he said.

A new Oklahoma law also requires habitual sex offenders to wear GPS monitoring devices for the rest of their lives. Ohio's budget funds lifetime GPS monitoring only for people classified as sexually violent predators.