BI Incorporated Selected by South Carolina for Active GPS Offender Tracking
Boulder, CO (PRWeb) December 8, 2006 -- BI Incorporated, the nation's largest provider of offender management monitoring systems and reentry services for community corrections, announced today it has signed a statewide contract with South Carolina for BI's ExacuTrack AT active offender tracking system. BI ExacuTrack AT, designed for high-risk individuals such as sex offenders, is the newest and most sophisticated active GPS tracking system on the market today. This award could include up to 200 ExacuTrack AT systems initially.
ExacuTrack AT enables agencies to know precisely where criminal offenders released to community supervision are throughout the day and ensures that if they cross into forbidden areas, this information is relayed to probation or parole agencies. Under terms of this contract, governmental agencies at the state, county and city level are able to use BI ExacuTrack AT.
"With this award, South Carolina will be able to incorporate the best available technology for tracking high-risk offenders," said Jock Waldo, Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Operations. "We are pleased ExacuTrack AT will support corrections agencies across the state in their efforts to keep South Carolina communities safe."
ExacuTrack AT is intended for high-risk offenders on probation, parole, and pretrial release. It enables agencies charged with supervising these individuals to precisely track an offender's movements in the community using GPS. BI now offers more than a dozen technologies for monitoring criminal offenders in the community.
ExacuTrack AT includes:
• A transmitter attached to the offender's ankle
• A lightweight, portable GPS tracking unit that the offender wears on a belt or purse, or carries when leaving home
• A base station installed in the offender's residence
• A secure web interface that stores all offender data and schedules, enabling officers to view detailed reports and maps for where an offender has traveled in the community.
BI is one of three vendors selected for its active GPS technology in South Carolina. This award is in effect until 2011.
For more information: http://www.bi.com/pdfs/ExacuTrackAT.pdf
About BI Incorporated
Established in 1978, today BI Incorporated contracts with more than 1,000 governmental agencies nationwide to provide offender monitoring technology, supervision services from a national monitoring center, community-based treatment services, and reentry programs to adult and juvenile offenders in the community on parole, probation or pretrial release. (www.bi.com).
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