A Chicago law firm has filed a federal class action lawsuit against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections alleging civil rights violations concerning the use of GPS monitoring for sex offenders — many of whom have completed their sentences and are…
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Georgia Supreme Court rules against lifetime electronic monitors for sex offenders – JURIST – News – Legal News & Commentary
The court found that extending this monitoring indefinitely beyond the term of a sentence “authorizes a patently unreasonable search that runs afoul of the protections afforded by the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.” There is a presumption that…
Walker Administration Puts 181 Men on GPS, Charges Them $200 a Month, But Doesn’t Seem to be Monitoring Them | Madison365
Cook said the Department of Corrections asked Attorney General Brad Schimel to specify for the Department what “multiple convictions” means. Schimel, in a letter dated October 2017, said that multiple convictions would be anyone with more than one count of…
Mistaken GPS alert leads to former alderman’s arrest for probation violation | Local News | kenoshanews.com
There are many things that can be said about this article. The one I’d like all to take away from it is that, someone was forced to wear a device that after they obtained permission and was told that their…