county to use GPS, polygraph on paroled sex offenders

Orange County is taking what some civil libertarians consider troubling steps to keep tabs on released sex offenders, giving them periodic lie detector tests and, starting next year, requiring some to wear wristbands linked to satellite tracking systems. The county will become the first in the state, and one of only a dozen or so nationwide, to track sex offenders on parole and probation with global positioning satellites, which allow officials to pinpoint offenders' locations around the clock. <snip> http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-000101626dec23.story?coll=la%2Dheadline s%2Dcalifornia%2Dmanual