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Model Legislation

Public Safety and Elections

GPS Tracking of Offenders
Summary

Did you know the
NRA--the National
Rifle Association-was the corporate
co-chair in 2011?

This Act enables State and local authorities to utilize GPS electronic monitoring as
a means of tracking offenders and pre-trial defendants within community
supervision. Further, the Act ensures agencies utilize the best technology
available. The Act shall create incarceration penalties for program participants
who do not following the program protocols.
Model Legislation
Section 1. {Title} This Act shall be known as the [ ] Act.
Section 2. {Definitions}
1. As used in this Act the term ‘offender’ shall mean
2. The term ‘pre-trial defendant’ shall mean
3. The term ‘program participant’ shall mean
4. ‘GPS electronic monitoring’ shall mean
5. ‘Unit’ shall mean
Section 3. {Use of Electronic Monitoring}
1. State [], County [], and Municipal [] shall monitor offenders and pre-trial
defendants that pass accepted risk assessment evaluations to enter the
community under GPS electronic monitoring supervision.
2. The monitoring agency shall utilize the best GPS electronic monitoring
technology available. The tracking system shall at a minimum:

ALEC’s’Corporate Board
--in recent past or present

• AT&T Services, Inc.
• centerpoint360
• UPS
• Bayer Corporation
• GlaxoSmithKline
• Energy Future Holdings
• Johnson & Johnson
• Coca-Cola Company
• PhRMA
• Kraft Foods, Inc.
• Coca-Cola Co.
• Pfizer Inc.
• Reed Elsevier, Inc.
• DIAGEO
• Peabody Energy
• Intuit, Inc.
• Koch Industries, Inc.
• ExxonMobil
• Verizon
• Reynolds American Inc.
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
• Salt River Project
• Altria Client Services, Inc.
• American Bail Coalition
• State Farm Insurance
For more on these corporations,
search at www.SourceWatch.org.

a. Utilize a continuously worn, non-removable, waterproof, shock-resistant,
hardened, single-piece tracking device attached to the ankle of the program
participant.
b. The unit shall self-acquire location information without interaction from the
program participant.
c. Report is near real-time if the offender tampers with the unit, is in a prohibited
area or departs from a specific geographic limitation, or unless the agency chooses
to use non real-time reporting due to geographic limitations.
d. The unit shall have memory onboard so that location and other information shall
be stored if power or cell coverage is lost and will send all information once power
and cell coverage is restored.
3. Agencies selecting vendors for electronic monitoring shall test the equipment to
see that it meets the minimum standards of this Act.
Section 4. {Criminal Penalties for Failure to Comply to Electronic
Monitoring Program}
1. Program Participants shall sign statements binding them to the rules of the
program for electronic monitoring to be eligible for program participation. Failure
to understand and sign the statement shall then require them to remain
incarcerated through the term of confinement associated with the participant’s
time in the program.
2. The statement paper may have the following terms:
a. Ability for law enforcement to enter their residence and search their belongings

b. People and places the participant agrees to stay away from
c. Places the participant agrees to go to
d. Agreement to not remove or tamper with electronic monitoring equipment
e. Agreement to charge the electronic monitoring equipment
f. Agreement to pay fees associated with being on the program if required
g. Acceptance of all above terms and the acceptance that violation of these terms
will lead to incarceration.
3. Failure to comply charges will be determined by the monitoring agency. Those
charges will lead to a time of incarceration of not less than [].
Section 6. {Severability Clause}
Section 7. {Repealer Clause}
Section 8. {Effective Date}
Adopted by the Criminal Justice Task Force at the Annual Meeting, August 2007.
Approved by the ALEC Board of Directors September 2007.

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