After being overwhelmingly passed in the state Assembly, a bill demanding that the state use global positioning system-enabled bracelets to track the state's most dangerous sex predators will head to the state Senate.
The Republican-sponsored bill, passed Wednesday, would use GPS technology to record the locations of serious child molesters for at least 20 years after their prison release date. The vote on the bill was 96-1, with state Rep. Marc Pocan, D-Madison, being the lone no-vote. Pocan said the GPS system would incur millions of dollars in expenses while not preventing those convicted from striking again.
'Instead of finding solutions to stop recidivism, people decide to go for the headline,' Pocan said.
If approved by the state Senate, it is expected that Doyle will sign it into law. In September, Doyle ordered the state Department of Corrections to impose GPS tracking on 200 of the state's most dangerous sex offenders.
