Gov. M. Jodi Rell and other Connecticut officials seemed shocked to learn that global positioning system devices used to monitor movements of a released serial rapist and other sex offenders could give faulty readings. But they should not have been.
In recent years, officials and researchers in several states have noted with concern that false alarms – instances in which GPS devices provide incorrect locations for former convicts or lose track of them entirely – are fairly common.
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