How To Effectively Track Child Sex Offenders
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.
And typically, only half of that time is actually served. Second, offender counseling and therapy programs. There’s certainly an enormous amount of pressure to keep these programs active. Yet the limited data available indicates the rate of recidivism among treated versus untreated offenders is almost negligible.
Then there is legislation that requires convicted sex offenders to register as such wherever they live. Or forbids them from living within certain distance of schools, parks, and daycare centers. Of course, the challenge of how to enforce these laws still remains.
So, what really works to protect the public from sexual predators?
Law enforcement and victim advocacy groups alike will tell you: Having the ability to monitor offenders throughout the day, in real time. To track them in their vehicles. At work. Inside buildings. Even inside subways. In other words, round the clock visibility into offender whereabouts no matter where they are.
The Electronic Monitoring Solution that stakes out offenders 24 hours a day. Currently, almost 25% of convicted sexual offenders can’t be accounted for. They’ve literally vanished into society. But with GLC Enterprises sex offender monitoring solution, law enforcement can keep a vigilant tab on offenders from the moment they step out of jail.
An increasingly important facet of the movement to prevent predation of our children involves the efficient monitoring of those who are eventually released back into society. We are proud to support the use of GLC Enterprises sex offender tracking technology in the fight to better safeguard our children, and provide the necessary monitoring of convicted child sexual predators.
The S-911 BRACELET GPS TRACKER is 100% waterproof and has these vital features for keeping track of sex offenders.
• A true one-piece design that eliminates the risk of lost or broken parts—no need for additional handheld GPS unit, phone line, belt clips, battery
packs or car chargers.
• Equipped with cellular tracking technology that kicks in when GPS signals fade out.
• Powered with the industry’s longest battery life.
Then, offender location and schedule profiles are set up within the software, indicating when offenders need to be within certain zones (such as home or work) and which zones offenders must avoid (such as schools or parks). Officers are alerted when offenders are not where they should be or if they get too close to a forbidden zone.
• Constant visibility into offender whereabouts: High intensity monitoring.
• Enforces court sentencing and orders: Sexual offenders may think twice about preying on potential victims when they know they’re being watched.
• Successfully manages larger caseloads: Technology allows officers to monitor more offenders and their whereabouts.
• Use for forensic purposes: Provides sex offender tracking records for various offenders that law enforcement can examine when looking for suspects to a crime.
• Subsequent monitoring changes don’t require interaction with offender: All changes are made right within the interface.
Now law enforcement can do what was previously impossible… keep constant track of sex offenders’ whereabouts at any moment of the day, at any location.
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