Wednesday, February 2, 2011

GPS Failures

Twice a day, for an hour, I am married to an electrical outlet to charge up this GPS Tracking Shackle I have locked onto my ankle. Even if I comply 100% with this bullshit Jessica's Law that is wasting tens of millions of tax payer dollars in CA and make sure my GPS Tracking Shackle is always charged up I can still be sent back to prison due to a GPS malfunction. These barbaric devices are said to last only a year or so. What happens when this horrid device fails due to no fault of my own? I go back to prison. California's CDCR wastes almost 70 million tax payer dollars a year on GPS Tracking Shackles all so the public can feel safe. It does not seem to matter to anyone that these devices do absolutely nothing to keep anyone safe. I wonder how many CA politicians and those in law enforcement own stock in Pro Tech? The company that has racked in tens of millions of CA tax payer monies since the Jessica's Law scheme was passed in 2006. Follow the money to find out the real reason why so many praise Jessica's Law.

GPS Sex Offender Tracking System Fails in Several States

MADISON, Wis. (CBS/AP) A global positioning system that tracks sex offenders failed in several states this week, leaving authorities blind to the real-time movements of thousands of offenders for most of the day Tuesday, Wisconsin prison officials said.

The Wisconsin Corrections Department had local police and probation agents detain about 140 offenders until the system was back up, and their whereabouts during the outage could be confirmed. Wisconsin offenders were never aware they weren't being tracked, spokeswoman Linda Eggert said.

The system's manufacturer, Boulder, Colo.-based BI Incorporated, confirmed that the outage affected 16,000 offenders nationwide, said Eggert.

The outage began around 9 a.m. Tuesday and the system was back up about 11 hours later, she said.

During the GPS failure, the state Corrections Department contacted offenders who were still on extended supervision and told them to report to their probation agents. The offenders were then transported to local jails.

"Due to a system failure beyond our control, we faced a challenging and unprecedented event for our Electronic Monitoring Center," Wisconsin Department of Correction Secretary Rick Raemisch said in a statement.

But thanks to the agency's emergency plan and cooperation from local law enforcement, "the situation was managed safely and efficiently with the number one priority being public safety," he said.

Eggert didn't know how many apprehension requests went out Tuesday or how many of the offenders remained in custody as of Wednesday afternoon.