JTIC Releases Report on Offender Tracking Technology Challenges and Needs

Visit JUSTNET, the website of the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC) System, to read Procuring and Implementing Offender Tracking Technology: Challenges and Needs (https://www.justnet.org/corrections-technology/Corrections-offender-tracking.html). Criminal justice agencies increasingly leverage offender tracking technology in the supervision of accused and convicted criminal offenders. According to a 2016 survey conducted by The Pew Charitable Trusts, agencies were supervising more than 88,000 individuals with offender tracking technology, a 30-fold increase from the roughly 2,900 reported a decade earlier. In light of the increasingly important role that offender tracking technology plays in community supervision, the Justice Technology Information Center (JTIC), a program of the National Institute of Justice, assembled an expert panel of administrators and program managers with responsibility for their agencies' offender tracking programs. This report presents the results of the panel's discussions.