Police, justice officials scramble to comply with GPS law
By Mary Schenk
Sunday January 11, 2009
Heather Coit
Champaign County probation employee Rob Wyre, holding an ankle bracelet at his desk in the county courthouse, demonstrates the use of a GPS system that tracks the whereabouts of a defendant in Urbana.
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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