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Corrections Technology Association
Protecting Our Most Vulnerable Through Innovative
Technology Electronic Sex Offender Tracking The
Florida Experience
Scott McPhersonGary YatesLisa Lagergren
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Agenda

• Criminal Justice DataProbation, Parole,
  Corrections
• Sex Offenders Predators
• Electronic Monitoring Technology
• Traditional
• Floridas approach
• SkyLinkA Complete Public Safety Solution
• History Implementation
• Corrections Law Enforcement uses
• Current Status Future Enhancements
• Questions Answers

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U.S. Probation Parolee Issues Population
Recidivism

• Facts
• 4.9 million adults on state and federal
  probation or parole
• 50 of these offenders return to prison prior to
  completion of sentence.
• Commit significant percentage of all crime
• Florida fully 1/3 of all crime annually150,000
  probationers
• 50 felony convictions 50 misdemeanor
• Major Public Safety ConcernRevolving Door

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U.S. Prison Jail Population

• Facts
• One million inmates in state prisons
• 51 Violent Crimes
• 20 Property Crimes
• 21 Drug Crimes
• ¾ million inmates in local jails
• Among the largest expenditure of local
  governments
• ¾ million on pre-trial status (jail or bond)
• Overall incarceration rate is nearly 500 per
  100,000 population

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U.S. State Corrections Costs

• Facts
• State Corrections Costs 40 Billion
• State Prison Costs 30 Billion
• State Probation Parole Costs 10 Billion
• State Prison Medical Costs 5 Billion

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Sex Offenders PredatorsA National Public
Safety Priority

• Facts
• 500,000 Registered Sex Offenders Nationally
• 50-60 Recidivism Rate
• Approximately 1/3 in Registration Non-Compliance
• Major Public Safety Concern
• 98 Sex Offenders Register at Local Level
• Many States Pursuing New Laws
• Prison and Electronic Monitoring
• Increase registration compliance
• U.S. Congressional Proposals
• Grants/Incentives to State and Locals

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Traditional Electronic Monitoring Technology

• House Arrest (Radio Frequency RF)
• Home curfews
• Alcohol Detection Monitoring
• Link with RF
• Voice Matching Verification
• Location verificationlow level
  offenders/juveniles
• Sex offender registration compliance
• GPS Tracking (Active, Passive)
• Offender schedules and compliance with
  supervision rules
• Continuous tracking
• Geo-fencing (exclusion inclusion zones)

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Traditional Electronic Monitoring--Limitations

• Focus on monitoring devicesnot power of
  information sharing
• Another stand alone system, not linked to other
  critical public safety databases
• Little or no value to law enforcement
• Critical public safety question is are these
  people re-offending?
• Dependent on specific, custom, tracking device
• Cell phones and other devices are getting
  smaller, more powerful, less expensive
• Devices are sensors, real power is the
  information
• Bottom LineAn Incomplete Solution

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Floridas Approach to GPS Sex Offender Tracking

• GPS Monitoring is a proven tool to reduce
  recidivism
• Florida is national leader in use of technology
• Jessicas Law includes provisions for GPS
  tracking
• Pushed by law enforcementsupported by FDC
• Same technology used for other probationers
• Integration with other technologies/databases
• Linkage to crime data is key
• FDC, Sheriffs Initiative began in 1999
• Federal grant for pilot
• Federal funding for statewide implementation
• Identify exclude criminal suspects

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Florida SkyLink Crime Data Integration System
An offender management and monitoring system that
links advanced electronic tracking technologies,
integrated crime incident data, and geo-fencing
tools to create time sensitive actionable
information and analysis.
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How the System Works
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Florida SkyLinkA Complete Public Safety Solution

• Focus on the software and interface.
• SkyLinks Interface and Database are Compatible
  with any existing GPS tracking deviceActive
  Passive.
• Also is designed to accommodate any new tracking
  device in the future.
• No need to change interface and retrain
  Corrections and Law Enforcement Users!

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Geo-Fencing..Inclusion Exclusion

• Stationary Exclusion/Inclusion Zone Alerts.
• Electronically detects sex and other criminal
  offenders that travel into prohibited geographic
  areas (schools, playgrounds, etc.) and reports
  violations to police.
• Allows the capability of creating and monitoring
  an unlimited number of inclusion and exclusion
  zones.
• Zones can also be used for investigative and
  intelligence purposes, such as around pawn shops,
  open drug market areas, and other geographic
  areas of concern.

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Florida SkyLink Zone Violation Report
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SkyLink Setting Customizing Schedules
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SkyLink Correlation of GPS with Crime Data

• Next Day Crime Hits
• Effectively integrates and compares GPS
  offender movement data with crime incidents
  reported to local law enforcement and alerts when
  an offender is detected within range of a crime
  scene during the estimated time of the event.
• The next day notification occurs after crime
  incident data is electronically submitted for
  post processing each night to compare crime
  incident data with offender location.
• The crime data is received from and reported to
  the law enforcement agencies with minimal impact
  on those agencies.

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Crime Mapping, Analysis Reporting

• Crime Mapping Analysis (single and
  multi-jurisdictional).
• Collects, stores, analyzes and displays on an
  electronic map crime incidents reported to law
  enforcement.
• Data can be displayed by date/time/crime type
  and many other variables across jurisdictional
  boundaries.

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Florida SkyLink Future Feature

• Dynamic Exclusion Zone Alerts.
• Unique capability of moving zones is especially
  useful for domestic violence applications (to
  warn the potential victim that they may be being
  stalked) and the detection of two or more
  monitored offenders that are congregating
  together.
• In domestic violence cases, the potential victim
  would carry an electronic tracking device, such
  as a GPS-enabled cell phone.

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Florida SkyLink Future Features

• School Notifications of Sex Offenders/Predators.
• Easily linked to schools via Internet with the
  capability of immediate alerts to school
  officials if a tracked sex offender or predator
  violates the prohibited area around that school.
  
• Real Time Field Queries--Vehicle Stops.
• Allows officers engaged in vehicle stops to
  quickly identify potentially dangerous tracked
  offender that is within (or very near) the
  vehicle being stopped.

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Florida SkyLink Future Features

• Integrated Officer/Vehicle Tracking Option.
• Tracking of police officers probation and parole
  officers and other public safety workers and
  vehicles for officer safety purposes through
  Interface.
• Certain GPS enabled phones or hand-held devices
  (such as Nextel) can provide GPS coordinates for
  mapping and reporting.
• Helpful for manpower allocation and specific
  operations such as SWAT, search and rescue,
  undercover investigations, and confidential
  informant tracking.
• Certain devices also contain a panic button that
  will communicate emergency alerts and immediately
  capture the location of an officer in need.

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Florida SkyLink Future Features

• Event Capturing Reporting.
• Ability for law enforcement, emergency response
  and probation officers to capture the specific
  location and time of certain events.
• For example, the coordinates of a specific
  location of investigative concern, such as the
  location at which a fleeing offender disposes of
  contraband during a pursuit can be easily
  captured and communicated.

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Florida SkyLink--Summary

• Full Integration with Crime Other Data.
• Complement current infrastructureincluding
  information sharing effort
• Move law enforcement forwardenhance partnership
  with Corrections
• Place offenders at crime events (Next day and
  real time)
• Multi-jurisdictional mapping, analysis and
  records management tools
• Officer safety functions (traffic stops/crime
  responses)
• Timely alerts to Law Enforcement, Corrections,
  Schools, other users
• Complement/Supplement Offender Registration and
  Mapping Systems
• Large number of exclusion/inclusion zones
  (stationary dynamic)
• Link to other GPS systems (Law Enforcement, event
  capture, etc.)

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Florida SkyLink--Summary

• Common and Stable Solution/Interface
• Integrate with any tracking device (its just a
  sensor)
• Takes advantage of rapidly changing monitoring
  technologies
• Common user training and support

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Contact Information
Scott McPherson scott.mcpherson_at_myflorida.com Ga
ry Yates gyates_at_aps.us Lisa Lagergren
llagergren_at_aps.us
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Questions Answers
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U.S. Congressional Initiatives

• Modeled after Floridas Jessicas Law
• SB 980 (Sen. Nelson)
• Sexual Predator Effective Monitoring Act of
  2005
• Provides 30 million in grants for state/locals
• 10 million in FY06, 20 million in FY07
• Funding for GPS tracking of sex offenders with
  linkage with crime event data
• HR 1505 (Rep. Brown-Waite)
• Jessica Lunsford Act
• Requires twice year registration for sex
  offenders
• Requires GPS tracking for offenders that fail to
  register two times or more
• Non compliance by State results in forfeiture of
  10 of Federal Funding allocated by the Omnibus
  Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968.

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U.S. Congressional Initiatives

• HR 2423/SB1086 (Rep. Foley/Senator Hatch)
• Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act
• Mandatory tracking for all sex predators/
  offenders that commit crime against minor
• One convictionperiod of supervision, Two
  convictionslifetime
• Establishes National Sex Offender Registry
• Creates National DNA database
• Provides funding for Sex Offender Management
  Assistance Program
• Distribution to states based on number of sex
  offenders
• Lose 10 of federal funding for noncompliance/
  Bonus funding for quick implementation