WI: Lawsuit challenges lifetime GPS
Following the success of a similar suit in Georgia, lawyers have filed a lawsuit challenging the practice of putting persons required to register as sex offenders on GPS monitors for life – even when they are no longer on probation.
The lawsuit (a copy of which can be read here: https://madison365.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/GPS-Lawsuit.pdf) was filed by attorneys Mark Weinberg and Adele Nicholas, who are no strangers to defending the constitutional rights of ALL people, including those required to register.
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I had 2 counts on one conviction in 1992. I was released from prison in 2010 not qualifying for GPS because the law was interpreted correctly.
I was later released from prison on a revocation sentence and required to wear having nothing change in my conviction record. No one could tell me why.
I later found that the states highest D.A. Schimel took it upon himself to reinterpret the laws of Wisconsin.
I completed my parole Oct. 2021.
I’m still wearing the monitor.
I also experienced many of the same problems with others wearing the monitor. Most irritating to me was over 100 calls in one month for lost signals. Which ended in me have to put a second monitor on my other ankle that connected to a landline telephone I had to pay for.
Another time of continued lost signal and repeated bracelet changes ended in them finally telling me that had a different bracelet that worked off of the most effective cellular service in my area.
A fix if done immediately would have saved me months of aggravation and unjustified p.o. holds for doing what I was supposed to be doing.
I hope and pray the Supreme Court makes the right decision and rights the wrong of a seemingly irresponsible decision.
Simply put, this is not the land of the free as it has been touted throughout history, it is the land of the laws. Laws made by money hungry politicians that make all these laws under the guise of “protect the children” when in all actuality not the GPS nor even registry laws, do ANYTHING to actually protect anyone. It is about public shaming as well as a way for politicians to gain public “sympathy” so they get re-elected. All in all political. Many other countries have condemned the United States for their hype laws including but not limited to sex offender registries (at least public ones), housing restrictions, GPS (and EM) bracelet monitors, and “special bulletins”/community notifications. I mean come on, when do you see a released convicted murderer even have to go through any of that?
Just remember, we live in the land of the LAWS, NOT land of the free.