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Newsday (Melville, NY)
MAR-06
Suffolk's spy in the sky: Plans for summer launch of GPS program that could shadow sex offenders, drunken drivers 24 hours a day.
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Suffolk's spy in the sky: Plans for summer launch of GPS program that could shadow sex offenders, drunken drivers 24 hours a day.
Publication: Newsday (Melville, NY) Publication Date: 31-MAR-06 |
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COPYRIGHT 2006 Newsday
Byline: Brandon Bain
Mar. 31--This summer, Suffolk County will embark on a program that will use global positioning system technology to more closely monitor a wide range of chronic abusers who commit serious and violent crimes.
Suffolk plans to place GPS ankle bracelets on convicted sex offenders, repeat DWI offenders, drug users and dealers, and the perpetrators of spousal abuse. The devices will provide monitoring 24 hours a day, giving probation officers minute-by-minute reports of an offender's exact location. The county's probation department will start with 25 offenders in June and expand to 100 by the end of the year as part of a pilot program that will be re-evaluated in December. The county plans to use about 50 percent of the devices on sexual predators with the rest to be divided...
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