Public Safety committee  I don't think I really know what he means by a jail, but electronic monitoring is intended to communicate the whereabouts of an offender. If it means that when an offender leaves his home when he is not supposed to leave home, his officer finds out about it immediately, then I su

Public Safety committee  Yes. Typically the offenders on house arrest are allowed to be at home, go to work, go to treatment, and some period of time to handle personal affairs like grocery stores, things like that. Some of them aren't even afforded that. House arrest is house arrest. They're supposed t

Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  Yes. I have personally been in court defending the technology, if you will, and members of my staff routinely go to court to interpret points, if you will, most often in the case of a violation of parole hearing.

Public Safety committee  In all cases it has been upheld. In fact, on several occasions we've met the Daubert standard.

Public Safety committee  In the roughly 15 years I have been involved with Pro Tech, now 3M, we had not been sued up until one year ago. This was the first case. It's an open case so I'm reluctant to talk too much about it, but we don't see it has much merit after reviewing the plaintiff's case.

Public Safety committee  That part's public information. We had an offender who was wearing a passive tracking device—which is next-day reporting of his location—and he was out one night and he shot and killed the plaintiff. The plaintiff's point is that we should have prevented that crime.

Public Safety committee  That's why I stated—and I state it all the time—that GPS will not prevent a crime.

Public Safety committee  The GPS is very consistent, except in examples that I've already cited—urban canyons and things like that. Poor cellular coverage is just a fact of life in our business. We see it all the time in every country we operate in. But the operation of the cellular device and the opera

Public Safety committee  We've never been hacked.

Public Safety committee  The study was conducted by a gentleman by the name of Bill Bales. I have access to a copy of that study and would be happy to send it, Mr. Chairman, to the committee, if you desire. The study looked at 2,700 offenders in Florida who were being tracked by GPS, and there were abou

Public Safety committee  The purpose of his study was to determine whether electronic monitoring was effective or not effective. Efficacy was measured by outcomes. He wanted to determine whether there was recidivism—whether they successfully completed the program, committed another crime, or committed vi

Public Safety committee  The reason we prefer a lease model is that we can continually upgrade and improve our product. As an agency receives new units or replacement units, if the units wear out or if the offender has taken off—and we constantly ship the units—we always ship the latest technology unit.

Public Safety committee  I would like to add that every technology I've talked about today and every capability I have talked about today is available immediately. It's currently in use.

Public Safety committee  Yes, if an agency requested that we provide a full-service solution that included monitoring, perhaps installations, and tracking the equipment, as well as all of the technology I talked about, we currently do that for a number of agencies and would be fully prepared to do it her