Comments on: Seventh Circuit affirms Wisconsin’s lifetime GPS monitoring

By: Reggie Burke

Reggie Burke — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 20:08:25 +0000

WI Stat. 301 clearly says the registry is for offenses on or after December 25, 1996. So how can cases prior to that be forced or used on the Registry?

By: D Banda

D Banda — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 23:38:55 +0000

These people have paid their debt to society and now have to live their lives with this thing strapped to their leg that makes it obvious what it represents. This was not a law, it was an opinion by the Attorney General, we all have one and his does not constitute what everyone feels. That is the most egregious error here. Who is going to cast the first stone. Bet he looked at porn when he was young. Maybe like some he didn’t realize they were unaged. Whatever it is wrong to judge one as someone else is judged for the same type of crime.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 20:07:30 +0000

In reply to A Mistake They Made. Sexual based crimes are by nature, stationary. Sex offenders are not roaming around the neighborhood snaching kids. They say 700 some thousand children go missing each year. Do you know how many Amber alerts that is per state per month? That is not a fact, its a lie. You keep watching the guy down the street while your brother rapes your kid. That comment is grounded in fact.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 05:19:40 +0000

In reply to david.

I’m on SSDI. So the tax payer takes care of all my “dues”. I will never give the state of Wi one nickel for this intrusion. Maybe the tax payers need to hear that. Instead of putting the money in education, let’s ignore the facts and talk about what never happens, like the BS recidivism crap based on fallacies.
The truth is that over 90% of children who are kidnapped or sexually assaulted are so by someone they know, fact! So why your GPS is watching SO’s who have been convicted, dad or uncle Charlie are committing assault.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 14:21:08 +0000

As a guy affected by this decision, I can tell you that the GPS monitor around my leg is purely a smoke screen to keep the public blind to the reality that the courts and law enforcement don’t give a crap.
When I went register for the second year, I told the sheriff I was there for my yearly check in, and she told me, ” We don’t keep track of that.” They still have the old picture up. I’m homeless so I have no address, which lets me live wherever.
The Wisconsin legal system is corrupt, that is why you have lawyers from Illinois filing lawsuits on behalf of Wisconsin residence, plaintiffs. Defense and appellate lawyers play ball with the state.
Facts in all these sex offender cases are all twisted in a pretzel that ignore the facts and feed on the fear of the public. Recidivism being the spearhead of the nonsense that is spewed from mouth of politicians and those who have no real platform to stand on. Sex offenders are easy targets.
Political ambition has taken the legal system on a joyride through public fear.
The GPS monitor around my leg is a total waste of tax money. It is a useless piece of plastic around my leg. It does nothing to protect the community.
Here is prime example of what I was told when I was released from prison. I can go wherever you want during the day, but have to be back in the country of my conviction by ten PM. So why all the children are at school, playing and so forth I walk and do whatever, but at night when they are at home safe with their families, I have to be in a secured place. Retardated.
Nobody is going to help us. We have to help ourselves. It would seem they are more afraid of us, then we are of them.
Perhaps a protest on the grounds of the capital buildings would get a little notice.
The truth is what the public needs to hear. Like how many government officials have stock in the GPS companies?

By: Tim in WI

Tim in WI — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 21:19:41 +0000

Larry, as for any sustainable complaint upon 1983 basis substantive 14th claim it would be helpful if any one of those persons cases which the state of WI does not have a signed standard waiver of civil right in it’s possession. Truth is the kind of monitoring by bracelet was available to the judge at the time of sentencing. In the 1990s WI called it “extensive sanction program.” Certainly committal to 980 SVP statute comes with all the substantive protections of trial and representation etc, but that too has been made much easier in scenarios where state has standard waiver in the criminal cases against the person. In terms of rights, a person cannot waive the SVP Processes even if he doesn’t want to contest it. If NARSOL is going to support a claim under the basis of 14th due process, focus on the Congressional error in not including process language in the statutes for attatchment. This is probative in terms of “necessary AND sufficient condition available to the state upon the time of the original conviction. ” California v Stonger highlights this point in the context of statutory limitations & ex post facto laws. But the same logic applies to states Statutes of limitationz and formal due processes. WI has “latches” in statute for post conviction appeals and post commitment appeals. WI Congressional neglect in adherence to those limits disadvantages those being released to its burden precisely because they’re given no opportunity to put the “necessity ” to the people themselves!

By: Tim in WI

Tim in WI — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 18:57:08 +0000

In reply to david.

Truly always was and has been form of human indentured servitude to state’s proprietary machine property. Suffer the machine device… Or else. Surely the database driven infrastructure has increased criminal activities and done little in the way of real prevention.
Who would need the people to believe different?

By: A Mistake They Made

A Mistake They Made — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 16:28:50 +0000

So no freedom no life at all for these guys. The answer to this is simple go back to prison and make the state support you.

By: david

david — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 13:44:04 +0000

Many on lifetime GPS aren’t even on supervision. After a re-interpretation what “separate occasions” means in 2017, now multiple counts from one act are considered separate occasions. Hundreds of PFR’s in WI were affected by this change.

By: david

david — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 13:30:05 +0000

At what point do fees become punishment? Braam is quoted saying he pays $240/month for GPS service. That’s way more than, say, registering a car in WI ($85/year).

Thanks for the super article, Larry!