LoJack Your ex-Cons

Butler County, Ohio officials are being asked to consider using tracking devices on all probationees particularly convicted sex offenders. Best - er - I mean Worst quote here:

While Fox earlier had suggested the use of electronic ankle or wrist bracelets to allow for passive monitoring of offenders, on Monday he took the proposal a step further, calling for a plan of implanting computer microchips into offenders so that they can be tracked and located immediately.

"People have these GPS chips put in their pets and - in some case - in their children, in the event they are lost or kidnapped," Fox said. "I don't see why the same can't be done with probationees."

Might have something to do with the fact that this is America or something like that. Also, implanting GPS locators in humans is not yet technically feasible, he may be thinking of RFID chips which only work over short distances and don't necessarily provide location information to a tracking system like a GPS transceiver would.