“Under one of the provisions in Ohio’s fiscal budget bill, sex offenders likely to commit similar acts again would be required to wear sensors around their ankles for the rest of their lives,” according to an article in last Friday’s Enquirer.
Those provisions begin on Page 693 of House Bill 66; an explanation begins on Page 512 of the Legislative Service’s analysis.
This form of monitoring was piloted in Massachusetts in Sept. 2004. Last month Florida and Oklahoma passed laws requiring lifetime GPS satellite tracking for certain sex offenders.
Ohio House Bill 227, introduced April 28th., encompasses similar monitoring provisions, and Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York all have bills pending.
There’s legislation in the U.S. Senate that would require all repeat sex offenders to wear the GPS ankle bracelet for life.
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