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US offenders unmonitored as tagging system fails
bbc.co.uk ^ | October 7, 2010 | Unattributed

Posted on 10/07/2010 9:20:45 PM PDT by MamaDearest

Thousands of US sex offenders, prisoners on parole and other convicts were left unmonitored after an electronic tagging system shut down because of data overload.

BI Incorporated, which runs the system, reached its data threshold - more than two billion records - on Tuesday.

This left authorities across 49 states unaware of offenders' movement for about 12 hours.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 10/07/2010 9:20:49 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: MamaDearest

It sounds like the herd should be culled.


2 posted on 10/07/2010 9:43:16 PM PDT by chopperman
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