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GPS technology is a great addition to the suite of tools and methods supervising agents/officers use to monitor the movements and compliance of enrollees. It allows supervising agents/officers to more closely monitor the movements of enrollees while increasing the level of community safety. This technology is highly effective, but it is not a replacement for in-person interaction between supervising agents/officers and enrollees. In fact, no technology can replace the critical person-to-person meetings, phone calls and visits. These interactions between supervising agents/officers and enrollees provide much needed information that isn’t available by simply looking at a map of tracks.
Satellite Tracking of People LLC offers supervising agencies a suite of technology, equipment and services to meet the diverse needs of an enrollee monitoring program. The Applications tab provides information regarding the types of populations GPS technology, in particular, are usually candidates for such a program.
High-risk Offenders
When supervising agencies use GPS technology to monitor the movements of high-risk offenders in the community, it provides supervising agents/officers with an extra set of eyes to help ensure compliance and increase the level of community safety.
High-risk offenders, such as gang members, sex offenders and habitual offenders, are usually considered candidates for active GPS monitoring, which provides near real-time data on their movements. If they enter a prohibited geographic area or are late entering a requisite geographic area or leave it early, the supervising agent/officer receives immediately notification about the violation and can quickly take appropriate action.
As a one-piece GPS monitoring device, BluTag quickly and easily attaches around the offender’s ankle and remains there for the term of supervision. BluTag transmits monitoring data at least once every 10 minutes when offenders are compliant with the terms of their supervision and immediately whenever an infraction occurs.
BluTag monitors the movements of more high-risk offenders in the nation than any other one-piece GPS monitoring device.
Pre-trial Defendants
The use of GPS monitoring technology allows qualified pre-trial defendants to continue their employment and/or educational endeavors while awaiting trial, which can help reduce the local jail population. This approach to effectively managing pre-trail defendants lowers the financial burden to the local jail’s operations.
Already used by pre-trial service agencies at the federal and state levels across the nation, BluTag records the movements of defendants 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. Our customers use BluTag in active, passive and hybrid GPS monitoring modes depending on the individual defendant and his or her circumstances.
Juveniles
Monitoring juveniles with GPS can help ensure they attend school and comply with other terms of their supervision. The use of GPS allows supervising agents/officers to create date and time sensitive inclusion and exclusion zones, which are identified geographic locations the juveniles are supposed to enter and remain or prohibited from entering for specific periods of time.
When courts order juveniles to be monitored with GPS technology, a one-piece device, like BluTag, is the most appropriate because they don’t have to hand carry any additional equipment. BluTag is the only device needed to effectively monitor juveniles in active, passive or hybrid GPS monitoring mode. Because BluTag is a one-piece GPS monitoring device that remains securely attached around the ankle, juveniles nor their friends can damage, lose or vandalize the equipment.
Truancy
Truancy is a continuing and growing issue in education today. It adversely impacts individual students, schools, school districts and a community as a whole. While GPS technology cannot address all of the many factors contributing to and creating truant students, it does provide one more tool available to supervising agents/officers and school districts to help return students to the classroom on a long-term basis.
Supervising agents/officers have the ability to review the movements of students at any given time and apply appropriate sanctions for noncompliance. If students are monitored in active GPS mode, supervising agents/officers will know immediately when they are not on the school grounds because BluTag generates an alert with near real-time information when an inclusion zone is not entered on time.
Alternatives to Incarceration
The nation’s prisons and jails are overcrowded due to years of legislation designed to “get tough on crime.” In addition to creating a skyrocketing population in prisons and jails, these initiatives have unintentionally sent many low-risk non-violent offenders to prison. A large percentage of these offenders are incarcerated for drug-related crimes and/or possession.
Overcrowded prisons and jails present dangerous situations for both inmates and staff. They create situations where the agency is more vulnerable to lawsuits from inmates and creates a strain on the actual operations of a jail or prison with regard to food and health services, sanitation and maintenance. Corrections agencies simply cannot build jails and prisons quick enough and in a cost effective manner to help relieve the strain.
GPS monitoring gives supervising agencies a tool to become “smart on crime” while holding offenders accountable for their actions. Offenders can keep their jobs or continue their educational endeavors while adhering to the other requirements imposed by the court, such as substance abuse treatment and counseling.
Because BluTag is a one-piece GPS monitoring device, offenders are not required to hand carry any other equipment. This one device is all that’s needed to effectively monitor the movements of offenders 24/7 and ensure they’re compliant with the terms of their supervision. BluTag monitors offenders in active, passive and hybrid modes, which provides a significant amount of flexibility for supervising agents/officers and administering appropriate sanctions.
Domestic Violence Abusers and Victims
Domestic violence is not a new crime, but there have been more stories in the media in recent years bringing higher visibility to it. Many domestic violence abusers need to be monitored with active GPS, so supervising agents/officers, law enforcement personnel and victims receive near real-time notification of violations.
BluTag is an ideal GPS device to monitor movements of abusers because no other equipment is needed to effectively supervise this population. When in active GPS monitoring mode, BluTag immediately generates notifications when the abuser enters prohibited geographic regions, tampers with the device, does not recharge the battery as required and many other events.
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