New sex offender GPS monitoring devices being tested across South Carolina

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) – The South Carolina Division of Probation, Parole, and Pardon introduced it’s testing out new units to watch intercourse offenders throughout the state.

Director of Area Program, Jerry Emberis, mentioned as a substitute of the ankle screens, his company is utilizing a wrist, bracelet-like gadget to watch sure intercourse offenders.

He mentioned they’re solely at first levels of testing the brand new know-how out.

As for present intercourse offenders, the laws for monitoring them is one thing each Emberis and fifteenth Circuit Solicitor Jimmy Richardson say is a subject being debated.

Simply lower than a 12 months in the past, Governor Henry McMaster signed a invoice to permit intercourse offenders in South Carolina to hunt elimination from South Carolina’s lifetime intercourse offender registry in response to the South Carolina Supreme Courtroom’s resolution in Powell v. Keel.

This invoice creates state tiers for offenders and supplies affordable avenues for elimination based mostly on the offender’s relevant state tier.

In South Carolina, it’s the regulation for SCDPPPS to trace solely those that have dedicated prison sexual conduct within the first diploma and/or in direction of a minor.

The company is accountable for monitoring these intercourse offenders throughout the state.

As of this 12 months, SCDPPPS says Horry County has over 700 intercourse offenders, and solely 73 are being monitored/tracked by SCDPPPS.

Richardson mentioned a decide also can rule to have a intercourse offender be tracked on a case-by-case foundation.

“A decide may additionally put ankle screens as a part of probation and parole for anyone they noticed match to. Even when the statute didn’t cowl it,” Richardson defined.

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