GA: Hundreds of Georgia sex offenders off ankle monitors
A landmark court ruling has led to nearly half of Georgia’s most high-risk sex offenders being released from their ankle monitors over the past year, marking a legal quandary that state lawmakers fell short in addressing during the 2020 legislative session.
State officials tasked with recommending how to monitor sex offenders in Georgia say legislation filed in the 2020 session would address the problem going forward by handing final authority to judges, rather than a state-run review board.
But criminal defense attorneys argue the proposal does not include certain legal avenues for sex offenders who often lack the means to appeal their punishments and who would benefit from more focus on treatment than lifetime ankle monitoring.
So far, 520 of 1,108 people in Georgia classified as “sexually dangerous predators” most at risk for committing future sex crimes have been freed from GPS tracking devices, according to Tracy Alvord, executive director of the state Sexual Offender Registration Review Board.
She expects 17 more sexually dangerous predators will be off ankle monitors by the end of this year, leaving local law enforcement agencies and the state Department of Community Supervision to rely more on reports from concerned citizens to monitor sex offenders in lieu of electronic tracking.
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GPS-tracked offender is going somewhere that is off limits like a school or has come into contact recently with people they shouldn’t, said the review board’s Alvord.
Ummm… how is a GPS going to let authorities know if you’re in contact with someone you shouldn’t be in contact with? Are these GPS’s now equipped with cameras? This is how misinformation and fear mongering is spread. Unreal.
Those with an agenda that cannot be justified with the truth must fall back on lies to support a system that was established on lies.
Thats what I’m wondering Maestro since we have got the new monitors I have had issues with the battery for it won’t stay charged for the hours I’m allowed out 6:00 am to 10:00 pm. Around 8:30 pm it goes off saying put on charge with the monitoring center calling questioning WHY is my battery low. I talked to my PO he said these new monitors with ALL the new features the battery’s don’t last so take my charger with me everywhere I go. Funny the only new feature any of us have been told about is the ankle band is supposed to vibrate if we get to far from the monitor………kind of funny that my monitor has gone off saying its to far away but yet the ankle band did not vibrate !! So What are all the new features really