Police, justice officials scramble to comply with GPS law

URBANA – Cindy Bischof's murder by an obsessed ex-boyfriend last spring sent her loved ones into a frenzy.

Fueled by grief and outrage, they mobilized to get a state law passed that allows for people charged with violating court orders of protection to wear GPS units to track their whereabouts.

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