Probation managers meet to learn new sex offender monitoring program

Michael F. Easley Governor		Theodis Beck Secretary
North Carolina Department of Correction

For Release:	Contact: Keith Acreer
Date: Nov. 15, 2006	Phone: 919 -716-3700

Probation managers meet to learn new sex offender monitoring program RALEIGH – Community Corrections managers from across the state will meet in Raleigh Nov. 20 and 21 for and informational meeting and training on the state’s new program of satellite-based monitoring for certain sex offenders. Managers will be briefed on the new legislation, introduced to the team that will manage the sex offender monitoring program and get a look at the new GPS equipment the program will use. WHO: Probation managers from every North Carolina judicial district WHERE: Sheraton Raleigh Hotel Oak Forest Room 421 South Salisbury St. Raleigh WHEN: Monday Nov. 20 beginning at 1:30 p.m Media availability with probation officials and equipment vendor representatives at 3:30 p.m. Sexual predators, sexual recidivists and those convicted of aggravated sex offenses after August 16, 2006 must submit to lifetime GPS monitoring beginning Jan. 1, 2007. Probation officers across the state are training now on the new program’s policies and procedures. Officers will start training on the technical aspects of GPS equipment operation in early December. The first group of qualifying sex offenders will be placed on GPS monitoring on Jan. 1, 2007. # # #