SpyGearCo: Spy and Surveillance

Sex offenders are clearly a threat and commit horrific crimes, but how great is the danger? After all, there are many dangers in the world—from lightning to Mad Cow Disease to school shootings—that are real but very rare.

Real sex offenders, people who rape and prey on others, should be marked but the average person on the lists didn’t do anything wrong. Get the predators off the streets and we will all be safer. Really, is everyone that naive? No this is MySpace’s way of giving us false confidence.

Sex Offenders have “always” been in our communities. The notification process will remove their ability to act secretly. Sex offenders are classified according to their risk of re-offending: low-risk (Level 1), moderate risk (Level 2) and high-risk (Level 3). The Act requires that DCJS also maintain a public Subdirectory on the Internet which only includes Level 2 and 3 offenders.

Sex offenders have always lived in our communities; but it was not until passage of the Sexual Offender Registration and Community Notification Act that law enforcement even knew where they were living.

In many cases, law enforcement is now able to share information with you. Sex offenders is too broad. I wish they maintained a strictly child molester list. Sex offenders have always lived in our communities; but it wasn’t until the passage of the Community Protection Act of 1990 (which mandates sex offender registration) that law enforcement even knew where they were living. In many cases, law enforcement is now able to share that information with you.

Law enforcement cannot dictate where an offender lives, as long as the offender registers his/her residence with the appropriate jurisdiction. Laws are supposed to protect children. Laws like this should give judges some discretion to limit monitoring when appropriate. For some offenders, lifetime tracking might seem excessive.

Police and law enforcement have access to information on all sex offenders (levels 1, 2 and 3). However, under the law, information on level 1 (low-risk) offenders is not available on the public website.

Police forces can also apply for sex offender orders that bar offenders from certain activities and areas frequented by children. The most high-risk offenders are subject to further surveillance – which can include electronic tagging – by local multi-agency public protection panels which include police, probation, social services and other agencies.

Police statistics also underestimate the actual volume of sex offenses, because many such victimizations are never reported to police. Nevertheless, descriptions of the known Vermont adolescent sex offenders are consistent with findings from studies of child sex-abuse victims, which found disproportionate perpetration by men (2,3).

Sex offenders must register with the County Sheriff on scheduled periodic bases, which is determined by their sex offender Tier classification. In addition, sex offenders must register with the County Sheriff any change of residential address, place of employment, or enrollment in a school or institution of higher education.

Now let’s talk frankly about sexual offense prevention tactics—both traditional and new. First, incarceration. Without a doubt, it’s the most foolproof method. Unfortunately, that guarantee lasts only as long as the offender’s sentence which averages about seven years.

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 6:19 pm and is filed under GPS Tracking. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

According to a national survey, only drugs are a greater child safety concern among parents and grandparents than child kidnapping!

Despite the concern, more than one-third of respondents did not know that children are more likely to be kidnapped or abducted by someone they know than by someone they don’t. Parents seem to fear kidnapping more than anything else. Some say that excessive television news coverage of child abduction causes parents to have a fear that is overblown.

Parental child abductions are frightening – especially when the children are taken overseas. These cases are difficult to navigate as international laws come into play. Parents are seeing their worst fear on live TV and it terrifies them. The statistics released are also terrifying.

Kidnapping occurs whenever a person is taken or detained against his or her will, and includes hostage situations. Moreover, kidnapping is not limited to the acts of strangers but can be committed by friends, by romantic partners, and, as has been increasingly the case in recent years, by parents involved in acrimonious custody disputes. Kidnapping is actually a combination of two crimes. One is abduction, which involves taking a person from one place to another.

Parents involved in a custody dispute sometimes abduct their children. When one parent has ties to another country, the danger of international child abduction becomes more serious. Parents should also be aware of registered sex offenders in their neighborhood or near their child’s school. Links to sex offender registries nationwide can be found at www.LiveSecure.org .

But now we learn the child usually knows the kidnapper. Besides, to a child, a stranger quickly becomes an acquaintance once the child learns his name, he’s no longer a stranger. But by combining forces and seizing eagerly on opportunities for cooperation, we can do a great deal. But it is just as often that the dream of a happy family and the actual reality are at odds. In spite of the fact that material well-being has increased and technological advances have been made, the European picture of the family is overshadowed by a number of factors.

These days, children are being abducted more than in the past. NCMEC has handled more than 160,000 reports of child sexual exploitation through its congressionally mandated CyberTipline at www.cybertipline.com. For more information about NCMEC, call its toll-free, 24-hour hotline at 1-800-THE-LOST (1.800.843.5678) or visit www.missingkids.com. NCMEC is a non-profit system with federal affiliation; they work with the law enforcement divisions on your case. Most other “list your missing child here” websites are hosted by people who’ll contact you and promise to find your child in exchange for large amounts of money.

Check First – children should always check with parents and guardians before accepting gifts, rides or invitations from anyone, including friends, acquaintances and people they don’t know. Being with another person in public is safer and more fun. Check First – children should always check with parents and guardians before accepting gifts, rides or invitations from anyone, including friends, acquaintances and people they don’t know. Being with another person in public is safer and more fun.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, November 12th, 2009 at 4:40 pm and is filed under GPS Tracking. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

Employee theft accounted for over 41% of inventory shrinkage, while only 35% was attributed to shoplifting. A reason for this is because companies started to direct their attention to and have successfully reduced shoplifting.

Employee theft can occur in any company, despite measures taken to prevent it. The only control an employer has over theft is to lessen the likelihood of it occurring and therefore decreasing the amount of revenue lost. Employee theft situations are occurring quite frequently in the corporate world. The situation has left many organizations in a state of shock.

Business proprietors should be encouraged to report all crime. Proprietors claim the main reasons for not reporting include reporting the crime would not achieve anything (42 per cent); the police could not do anything (42 per cent); the incident was not serious enough to report (38 per cent); and the chance of success was slight (37 per cent).

Small Business owners must be aware of these facts in order to detect employee theft. It is a common fact that most employers do not suspect their employees of theft.

Employee theft can take many forms, from stealing office supplies or merchandise, to stealing time by improperly reporting sick leave and vacation to stealing intellectual property and confidential information. When employee theft is discovered, the employer/owner feels violated and often reacts out of emotion.

Individuals who are saddled with debt are more likely to succumb to financial pressure and steals from the company they work for.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 at 6:34 pm and is filed under Hidden Cameras, Spy Cam. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

Companies need effective systems that can tell them immediately who has a particular asset and where it is located. They also need to track assets that have been disposed of, to ensure that their financial records do not include assets they no longer own.

Asset tracking is a well understood problem and has had several solutions applied to try and solve. One method currently being used is the inclusion of a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip inside the asset. Asset tracking and digital home inventory software made simple!

Asset tracking enables asset managers to track asset location and to indirectly monitor the asset usage status in real time by using mobile wireless sensor nodes attached to each asset. The suggested solution will reduce costs associated with asset tracking and management and improve asset utilization and operational efficiency.

GPS asset tracking ensures that any deliveries to be made will arrive at their proper destinations. If a problem arises and a delivery isn’t made, GPS tracking history allows delivery companies to retrace their steps and see what went wrong. GPS asset tracking devices help secure your mobile assets and shipments as they travel around the world and through the distribution supply chain.

With GPS asset tracking systems you can achieve increased asset, and real-time supply chain visibility while, at the same time, reducing your insurance rates and security expenses. GPS Asset Tracking is usually to track vehicle like cars and trucks and some important gadgets like laptops or cell phones. If you have luxury car, you can installed GPS tracking in your car just to protect it from being stolen.

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This entry was posted on Monday, November 2nd, 2009 at 2:18 pm and is filed under GPS Tracking. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.