Friday, April 14, 2006

Missouri starts using GPS to track offenders


Missouri starts using GPS to track offenders
Kansas City Star - JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Some Missouri criminals have begun wearing Global Positioning System tracking devices as part of a state pilot project testing out the technology mandated for certain sex offenders under a law passed last year. The Department of

Sprint can help track the kids
Kansas City Star - Way back in the day, say yesterday, we corralled the kids to help us find our lost car keys or misplaced mobile phones. Now our phones can help us find the kids . The first phone-based geofencing service for consumers will be unwrapped by Sp

Politicians Use Bogeymen as Allies in the Big Scare
Common Dreams - Forget everything politicians say about holding down taxes. The sky's the limit. No amount of tax money is too much to pour into a totally worthless program. The only requirement for unlimited, useless public spending is that it must give politicians

U police care about bike theft
Minnesota Daily - his week s hottest issue is Who cares about campus bike theft? Writing in response to the April 5 Daily editorial Kudos and Gripes asserting that the University Police Department doesn t care (enough) about bike theft, high-ranking