A new law is going ahead in most (if not all, I'd be suprised) states that would require a Registered Sex Offender to wear a GPS device for 25 years as potential protection for children (the GPS, oddly only applies to minor-related crimes, I guess "normal" rapists are okay).
quote:The 25-year minimum would not apply to anyone convicted of molesting older children. Those offenders would have to be monitored electronically only during their probation, not for life.
Sounds like he'll only be boned for the duration of his probation.
I decided to start a thread in Flameboard for this as it's intresting and not a little scary- there is now also proposed leglislation for registering anyone convicted of murder.
When exactly does someone pay off their debt to society now? How far can we descriminate against someone that has served their sentence?
How many people would search for the diffrence between our friend and some child molester- it's kinda a blanket term after all "Sex Offender".
Your thoughts, Flarites?
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
So, I don't understand. Does the tracker somehow detect when the person is near children? Or are people going to be paid to sit and watch monitors showing where the offenders are, 24/7, and see if they go anywhere that seems suspicious?
Explain to me how that girl would have avoided bing killed if the guy had had a GPS transmitter attached to him at the time?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
They would not, of course- the notion is (I guess) that they can track down an suspect when a kid goes missing.
Though, ironicly, the girl the legislation is named after was alive at the time they first picked up her killer for questioning- she was (reportedly) buried alive in his house and the cops did not do a real extensive search- time being of the essense in finding the girl and all that.
It's sad that something so horiffic should be used as a platform that could be used to severely restrict rights (because you can bet your ass, that conviceted murderers are next, then mabye robbers or registered democrats....)
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
Any more, they should have you register if you are NOT an offender, probably less paper work.
This all kind of reminds me of an episode of either the Outer Limits or Twilight Zone, where a person was convicted of some something and was made "invisible" to the rest of the population. They could see him, knew he was there, but by law could not recognize or interact with him for fear of being punished themselves. There were all sorts of little hovering bots to make sure that this was carried out.
This seems to be the type of society we are heading towards with all the "Security" crap that's going on. Given humanity's base nature, you just know that someone, somewhere will abuse this power.
Personally, a convicted sex offender SHOULD be tagged....with a toe tag.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
It just begs the question (almost always overlokked today) of reforming a convict for the better of society.
Why bother to incarcerate someone of they'll be worse when they get out? (speaking of hardcore violent criminals here)
There's also chemical lobotomy for repeat offenders....then zombie movies would have believable zombies and the effects budget could go to hire real actors for the living...