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Truly Homeless Sex Offenders

By "eAdvocate"

Even if all registrants of registries wore GPS units, that will do nothing but track them, GPS units do not prevent crime. Additionally, if the police are sitting at a screen watching the dots move around, the screen cannot tell the viewer what the person is doing. Tracking moving dots will not prevent crimes. GPS has two purposes: 1) To send an alert when the wearer enters a restricted area; 2) To make a record of where the wearer has been. Beyond those two GPS is useless.12-15-2009 Massachusetts:The city of Springfield has the highest number of sex offenders in the commonwealth. Many of them end up at the Friends of the Homeless shelter on Worthington Street.Executive Director Bill Miller said, "It's not something we're happy about that sex offenders end up in shelter...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on December 15, 2009 (boomark / email).