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Os the regustered sex Be safety of many outs% et treatment. not constaiit privacy of a less. Sc 's fenders need YES NO sort cii lance. ttlli lti iit. MiSS011ti. Ohio and Oklahoma lime ii Sen. Jackie Speier. iillsborough. proposed a plan last month that positioning systems ready realited the need to attach lifetime global would require all high-risk sex offenders in the Bay Area and the rest set offenders. Non it's time tor the ((WS, to con% lewd and released of California to be outfitted aith global positioning devices upon their rest ol the states to follow. parole or probation. 21 registered sex offenders is ho rate In it tip code alone. there are An electronic waterproot bracelet ss ould be permanently placed on ranging from exposure to a minor to lewd acts agai committed crimes their ankle. and sex offenders SS 1,111(1 hate to stay within the perimeters rape by force. I live :no blocks an ay children tinder the age of 14 and of their separate global positluilllrlc sy stems transmitters. to knots that these people front an elementary. school. It's unsettling Permanently attaching a i Ps tr:icking de% ice on a convicted sex or to n streets despite hating committed such heinous are free ander the fender helps no one at all. Instead. it rips ass as offenders' human ri , crimes. and their rights to privacy and gi% es them Mlle hope of leaving the these criminals are undo intense government scrutiny af- Although behind and rebuilding towards a hotel future watch them all the time. .I .here is no nay of ter their release, no one can According to the state Attorney I leiter:11.s 'nice. there :ire more than from repeating their till CS. totally stopping these criminals 63.0(X) registered sex offenders in I -alitornia sex offenders are forced I., register nil) a In California. released For 63.(O() people in California this plan means the still become accessible to the public with their ino% mem re sex offender database branded with a modern-day scarlet letter. ss Inch ss ould make es er-,1,1\ the supers ision of the department of correction stride& They 're under life complicated. especially at a Mite %%hen they are li\ilrg o re,r, are often subject to unannounced home Hits aridmay be and times their lit es. Finding jobs and renting houses, an already difficult these steps don't ensure thew psxmle s% ill not chemically castrated. but itself. would prove to be even more of a challenge \s hell :in oriel commit allot her crime. has a (I PS device strapped around his or her ankle 24 hours a day. XX fact, there's no way of ensuring that, but In employer would want to hire somixine knots by fincing these sex offenders to wear a ( i PS. at ing that he or she n as a sex offender? least they can be tracked at all times Yes. molesting someone is one of the most Right now. there is no way ot knots rig a sex- repulsit e crimes a person can commit and the ual offender's exact whereatiouts. It one was possibility of repeat is likely. Howes Cr. in a hanging around school yards or it lrid Ii rig recent Washington State study- on sex oi fend- en in bars. there %souk' be no s% ay ill knon mg ers. it reported that sex offenders are least With the adoption of (iPS moritoring in likely to re -offend compared to those con- California, Ian enforcement officials would be victed of other felonies. It also reported that able to pinpoint the location of an offender, and TATIANA GETTY within five years of release from prison. 4 ensure that the person is not % ent tiring into re- percent of those ts ho are convicted of prop stricted areas. TERESA HOU erty crimes return to prison while only 15 .I's - the next evolution of criminal surveillance. People being percent of sex offenders return to prison for ti,icked it ear an electric, waterproof ankle band at all times. This band new crimes. Does that mean ste should put tracking dei its On ill ii is tv irelessly linked to a (iPS transmitter that can be nom on bells, in hers, drug dealers and other felons'? purses. or set don n vs hen a person is at home or %souk , wwwithesia Some government officials have said the cost of has ins these (iPS The des ice is not as imposing as it seems. It still ,ii Ion s the offend- tracking devices will save California more than a $1 billion a year. With ers to go about their normal lit es. but ensures that the people around the tracking des ices costing about SI() per day- per felon -- according them are safe. Online poll: to Speier and more than 6.30K) registered offenders in California According to an Associated Press report in July of 20)5. this tech alone, it seems that taxpayers would be paying more money. To top it nology is already used to follow about 5.000 people on parole. proba Should GPS trackers be placed on off. if the government considers an offender able, her or she may be non and house arrest in 38 states. In Florida. the State Department registered sex offenders? required to pat the cost of Miving the unwanted bracelet around their Corrections followed about 16.000 offenders. is ith 1.00() is caring i l's ankle. Two years later, the study found that six percent of (iPS offenders had The tracking des ices tt arranties aren't foolproof. Cases in Idaho committed new felonies or misdemeanors. compared to 11 percent ot and Florida prove that the LiPS bracelet has not stopped sex offenders the offenders not outlined n iii tIre I from striking again. According to authorities in Florida. child molester It may seem inhumane to track humans like animals, but what :ire the - Yes Kenneth Lamberton tt as vt caring a (I PS monitor when he allegedly other options? Increasing jail sentences could work. but prisons arc r forced himself on a girl. ready ON ercrowded and there's teall no money to build new facilities No False signals, going wider tunnels and solar storms are some of the ( iPS may violate the rights ot se's lit enders everywhere. but when it Results to last week's question: things that can cause the bracelets to mallunctiorniPS tracking des ices comes doss n lo it. sometimes you lime II sacrifice the rights of a few to Should alcohol be banned at university games? are not meant for any human, not c% en sex offenders. save the rights itid list's of the many. Besides, the second sex offenders Rather than strip offenders of their right to prisacy. society needs to decided they had the authority to take :may the basic human rights ot allow them to seek the treatment they need at hospitals itt order to gel their %Minns. they case up their on n rights. 30% Yes 70% No past their is rongdoings. 13) imprisoning them with ( iPS bracelet,. SA Mild never allow them to learn from their mistakes.
I ma ( 1,41 ivri ter What do you think? !crew llou 1.5 a ,Sparhat vall writer. ibrri campusvoices I 11 COMPILED BY JAMIE VISGER; PHOTOS BY CHANTERA GUNN
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