When Brian Golsby raped and murdered 21-year-old Ohio State University student Reagan Tokes on February 8, 2017, he was wearing a GPS ankle bracelet. The device recorded his movements with sub-minute precision — tracking him as he circled her workplace, followed her to her car, and drove her to Scioto Grove Metro Park where he […]
When a Louisiana court convicted an ankle monitoring company employee for negligent injury in August 2026, it marked the first time in the state’s history that someone responsible for tracking a GPS ankle bracelet was held criminally liable for failing to act on violation alerts. The case — rooted in the 2021 murder of 70-year-old […]
When ICE fitted a GPS ankle monitor on 20-year-old Pierre Damas Bel in Springfield, Ohio, this July, the device was one of roughly 53,000 GPS trackers strapped to immigrants under the agency’s Alternatives to Detention program — a 76% increase over the previous fiscal year, according to federal data reviewed by WCPO. Meanwhile in Prince […]
On August 31, 2026, Pierre Damas Bel — a 20-year-old Haitian honors student and varsity soccer player at Wright State University in Springfield, Ohio — walked onto Interstate 70 and stepped into the path of a tractor-trailer. He died at the scene. His family, his pastor, and Ohio Governor Mike DeWine all pointed to the […]
On August 26, 2026, the UK Ministry of Justice announced a policy that no other country has attempted at national scale: restriction zones — geographic boundaries that confine serious sexual and violent offenders to areas as small as a few miles wide after prison release, enforced by mandatory GPS ankle bracelet monitoring. The program launches […]
On August 5, 2026, Taiwan People’s Party founder Ko Wen-je arrived at Taipei’s Ren’ai Police Station on crutches to swap his electronic ankle monitor for a wrist bracelet. The Taiwan High Court approved the switch after reviewing 10 months of monitoring data that revealed a staggering 3,803 alert incidents — 98% of which were system […]
On July 28, 2026, the Japanese government approved emergency countermeasures at a ministerial meeting on crime prevention (Kyodo News) — including a landmark proposal to require high-risk stalkers under restraining orders to wear GPS tracking devices. Victims would receive automatic proximity alerts if the offender approaches a designated area, giving them time to evacuate or […]
Ghana’s Parliament passed the Community Service Act, 2026 in July 2026, and the Interior Ministry simultaneously laid Parole Regulations, 2026 before the House — two pieces of legislation that together represent West Africa’s most comprehensive non-custodial sentencing reform in a generation. The laws tackle a crisis that has festered for decades: Ghana’s 43 prisons hold […]
Between March and July 2026, two women in South Korea were murdered by men who were either wearing electronic ankle monitors or subject to court-ordered restraining measures. The killings — one in Namyangju, one in Seongnam — exposed a systemic failure so fundamental that it forced the Ministry of Justice and the Korean National Police […]
Fuqing City Bureau of Justice in Fujian Province, China, has renewed its partnership with REFINE Technology to continue deploying CO-EYE GPS ankle monitors for community corrections supervision. The renewal — covering the city’s entire caseload of offenders serving community sentences — marks a multi-year commitment to electronic monitoring as a cornerstone of Fuqing’s public safety […]
