I am going to continue to document how GPS can help. Below is a one of the many uses for GPS.


Tracking sex offendersSatellite system shows it can nail a parolee who strays from the path.


Tracking sex offendersSatellite system shows it can nail a parolee who strays from the path.
A new law allowing paroled sex offenders to be monitored by satellite tracking technology has resulted in its first local success. If all goes well, it will be the first of many.
On Thursday, about six weeks after Gov. Schwarzenegger signed the law permitting global positioning systems to be fixed to the ankles of freed sex offenders, parole officers arrested a man in Anaheim after he had been discovered in areas frequented by children.
Parolee Robert Dobucki, who had been fitted with a GPS ankle bracelet, visited an elementary school, a doll shop and a children's amusement park before his arrest, according to news reports.
It's an encouraging sign that California's system may work as effectively as the one it was modeled after, in Florida. GPS tracking in Florida appears to have reduced repeat offenses among high-risk offenders by as much as 50 percent.
In the Anaheim case, the GPS system worked exactly as intended.


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