Candice – in FL the legislature just passed a minimum mandatory sentence for registration violations (any) of 6 months on a GPS. Given all you cite and more, it will be part of our ex post facto challenges.

Lately close to my home a violent offender cut off his device and 3 weeks later he was discovered 1000 miles away.

Agencies don’t have either the manpower nor the technological science to keep track of each individual’s movement.
JEV

I think I found it.:

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/575/14-593/case.pdf

I read what the Supreme Court said the GPS tracking was considered a search. However, the SC did not rule that it was unconstitutional because neither the state nor Grady showed how the program was reasonable or unreasonable. For now, the GPS tracking is still active in many states. Someone has to argue how the tracking is unreasonable. In Missouri, you have to charge the GPS tracker for 3 hours every night. So you have to have it plugged in while you are sleeping. Also, you can’t go outside of a 100-mile radius, which means that a person can not do any job that requires them to travel. It subjects them to public humiliation when they are seen wearing a GPS tracker on their ankle.

@ Candace

Follow this link for an easier to read version of the Case I had mentioned above:

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2015/0330/GPS-monitoring-of-sex-offenders-for-life-Supreme-Court-reverses-N.C.-case

The case was Grady v. North Carolina (14-593). Decided in 2015.

Yes, I realize that both of these are from the same state now… have I mentioned that the Courts can be funny things?

Thanks – we will post this!

https://www.njcourts.gov/attorneys/assets/opinions/appellate/published/a2388-16a3132-16.pdf

I’ll look for it when i have more time, aka, when i am not at work.

I want to say it was case originally out of either north or south Carolina, decided by scotus in 2016.

Can you cite the case? I am not aware of any such ruling and to my knowledge, Missouri still has lifetime GPS monitoring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET_b78GSBUs

Gerald,
I had to wear one of those things for 7 months before the JUDGE told them to take it off me. They would come by to “check on me” and while I was there, in my “zone” it would read that I was “absconded”. I took pictures of it flashing red because the probation would say “its ok, we know about it”—then try to have me violated.

There was a BIG story in Broward County about it. They had one offender IN COURT, with his attorney, and the probation stated that he was “at home”.
Well, you should have seen the look on their faces when the judge asked the person (with his attorney–under judges orders to be there) to stand up. The judge asked the probation Dept to explain themselves on how this person could be compliant and be home, yet 7 miles away, in a courtroom……..