Wisconsin’s Lifetime GPS Monitoring Upheld for Sex Offenders

A Wisconsin law that requires certain sex offenders to wear GPS monitors for their entire lives doesn’t violate the Fourth Amendment, a federal court said.

The state has a strong interest in protecting the public from repeat offenders and wearing the monitor imposes only a modest burden on the offender’s privacy rights, Judge Brett H. Ludwig said Tuesday for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

The monitor is unobtrusive and doesn’t track people on a real-time basis, Ludwig said. Instead, their locations are analyzed every 24 hours to see if they were near places were children ...