More CA Sex Offenders Monitored by GPS

SACRAMENTO (AP) - California has outfitted about half the state’s paroled sex offenders with GPS devices but is falling short of a requirement to track them all. On Wednesday, officials announced they had attached ankle monitors to 2,500 of California’s most dangerous sex-offender parolees. That’s in addition to the 2,300 units already tracking paroled sex offenders who are considered less dangerous. It is expected to take until June 2009 to outfit all 9,000 sex offenders who are on parole at any given time with global positioning system ankle bracelets. The devices are removed once offenders complete parole. California voters in 2006 approved Jessica’s Law to tighten restrictions on paroled sex offenders. One provision requires lifetime monitoring. The law is unclear about who should track the sex offenders once they are off parole. Neither the state nor local law enforcement agencies wants to pay for it.