A GPS Warning
Warning Victims Via GPS Tracking Devices Makes Sense
The Service is Called Victim Notification Solutions
Source acquired via VV Daily Press, June 1, 2010, San Bernardino, California – Attaching a GPS tracking bracelet to a convicted criminal isn’t a new notion. Attaching a GPS tracking bracelet to a potential perpetrator is another idea altogether. One Californian GPS tracker company is presently trying to convince San Bernardino Country family courts that certain individuals should be monitored using GPS bracelets before these individuals have been convicted of any crime.
Using Technology to Make Victims Aware
The service, called Victim Notification Solutions, alerts possible crime victims of a monitored person’s whereabouts when a person wearing a GPS tracking bracelet approaches an area where a potential victim is located. Those people who are deemed “high risk” for an attack will receive a cell phone notification that will allow them to flee an area before any crime can be committed. If this system is adopted by California family courts, those people who are considered dangerous can be ordered to wear a GPS tracking bracelet before they have been convicted of any crime.
Civil rights groups are arguing against the implementation of such a system stating that forcing an innocent person to wear a GPS monitoring bracelet is against the law. Further, many wonder how family court judges will determine who is considered a high risk, and who should not be forced to wear a bracelet. The company that devised Victim Notification Solutions, GPS Monitoring Solutions, has been “…working with the criminal courts…but now (they’re) we’re stepping over to the family courts mainly to keep family court cases to the family courts before escalating to criminal court.”
A Little Peace of Mind
Warning people about others who are deemed dangerous may seem like a good way to prevent crime from happening, but it will also create unnecessary fear and chaos. Those who receive the proposed cell phone warnings may begin to target people who have not committed any kind of crime. Civil rights activists are presently trying to stop the San Bernardino proposal, though some believe that slapping a GPS bracelet on a would-be criminal is a good way to stop crime from happening.
At the time of this writing, San Bernardino County courts do not have the right to sentence any innocent person to a lifetime of GPS monitoring. However, with a large amount of public support, many unsuspecting people may soon be wearing GPS tracking bracelets. As for the cost of monitoring people who have not been convicted of any crime? Well, this proposed tracking will just have to be added to California’s massive monitoring bill.
Tags: Crime, GPS Tracking Device, GPS Warning, monitoring, peace of mind
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