September 29, 2010
Few sex offenders being released from prison with GPS
Paul Franklin Castro, an Escondido sex offender, failed to report to his parole agent to be fitted with a GPS tracking device after he was released from prison Aug. 30.
While the episode ended well ---- he turned himself in after intense media coverage ---- it raised the question of why Castro, 53, a convicted rapist and child molester, or any sex offender, would be freed from prison without first being fitted with the global positioning system tracking technology that became mandatory under 2006's Jessica's Law.
But no law or policy says GPS monitoring must begin the moment a sex offender gets out of prison. And it's not standard procedure...
LINK - NCTimes.com
