Judges get more hip - smarter than many business owners it seems

A 21yo environmental 'freak" cum anarchist is implicated in several fire bombings in California.

The judge, asked about the release of this guy while he waits for further federal charges to be adjudicated stated: ..........he could not consider releasing Lewis unless GPS tracking was made available."I've been advised by pretrial services that electronic monitoring could be enhanced by GPS, which would allow (us) to pinpoint his actual whereabouts," Nowinski said. "(I) will not consider release until the technology is made available.".....

Full story here: http://www.auburnjournal.com/articles/2005/02/18/news/top_stories/01firebombs.txt

Now keeping an apparently quite dangerous criminal under surveillance seems a creditable idea. Many don't understand that for years the practice of "electronic surveillance" of criminals is a low-tech, analog easy to defeat "has been".

Too bad more business owners don't look closely at the advantages of GPS ... they seem unwilling to know the truth about their business.

Kudos to Judge Nowinski

dave
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