Florida's probation officers can now GPS sex offenders

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Until recently, when Florida probation officers went out to check on sex offenders wearing ankle bracelets, they had to leave an important tool in the office: the monitoring software that tracks the offenders.

The new system is called the Mobile Data Access System.

"MDAS allows our officers, to work smarter. If they get to the home and the sex offender is gone, they get back in their car, get on the computer ... and they look up in a real-time environment where this person is, where they've gone."

Now, the more than 350 Florida probation officers who monitor sex offenders carry laptops on the road that allow them to track offenders.

Officers can also update case files without having to return to the office.

Of the people on probation, approximately 2,000 are being tracked by GPS devices, most of them convicted sex offenders.

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Now if we would just put the GPS tracker around their necks, include one ounce of C4, and a real time digital camera to catch them in the repeat offense, a push of a button or click of a mouse solves the problem. :evil: