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How safe are your children?

View the article here 03/15/2009 By Sondra Santos LaBrie - San Diego Parenting Examiner A recent article about the murder of a young teen by a sex offender has many parents wondering about the systems put into place that supposedly keeps better track of offenders when they're on probation or released from prison. Drivers use GPS monitoring to get to their destination, cell phone users have GPS services on their phones and GPS watches are being used by hikers to send out an alert if they should get lost, allowing the GPS tracking device to provide authorities of their precise location. Even GPS locators for children are available so that they will be easily traced if they should somehow walk out of visible range from their parents. What these GPS devices don't do is prevent humans from misbehaving, getting into trouble, or - more importantly - stop offenders from attacking new victims...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on March 16, 2009 (boomark / email).