In response to Diane Sawyer’s 20/20 interview with Jaycee Dugard last year, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has since implemented several changes to its sex offender monitoring program. If you are unfamiliar with Dugard’s story, the gist is that at 11 years of age, Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped by Phillip & Nancy’s […]
Johnny Ray Morgan of Palm Bay is on probation for having sexually battered a child in 1995. After cutting off his court-ordered GPS tracking device, his probation officer was immediately notified. Probation officials then alerted Palm Bay police, who searched wooded locations in which Morgan had before camped, as recorded by previous GPS tracking data received. […]
According to a study conducted by Utica College, 16.6% of the 90,000 registered sex offenders being monitored by GPS tracking devices may be skirting the system. Some of the ways to circumvent the court-ordered tracking system is by moving residences frequently, using various social security numbers, using aliases or varying the spelling of their names. […]
GPS technology has allowed prisons to reduce costs by releasing sex offenders back into the community, monitoring their whereabouts remotely. However, when a parolees subverts the technology, law enforcement has to rely on old fashioned police work to find them. The California State Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) tracks more than 7,000 registered sex offenders. […]
