By Harriette Halepis
“GPS tracking is just a thing of the future. Only technology nerds use it!” you may think to yourself. Not true. GPS tracking is used by just about every cross-section of the population and is increasing in use every day. All types of people use it for a near-infinite
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By Greg Bartlett
Social workers assist persons with developmental disabilities. One of the great challenges faced when working with this population is how to balance safety concerns with the client’s right to be independent. Issues that need to be evaluated are the client’s propensity for wandering/getting lost and also the possibility that a client will be
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By Greg Bartlett
GPS tracking devices are readily discussed in conversations about how to locate a stolen car. Something you don’t often here talked about though is the success that can be had when they are used to locate people. This is not Big Brother stuff that is being suggested, it is about being able to
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By Greg Bartlett
Every year, more than 6000 teen drivers are killed because they get themselves into situations they do not have the experience to deal with properly. Often, these teens get themselves into such situations because they sneak off and go to places they should not be without their parents’ permission. Installation of a GPS
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Earlier this week a story came over the AP Wire about the number of children and developmentally delayed adults who are left on board school buses each year. According to the experts, these occurrences are not at all unusual, with as many as 75 such incidents happening every year, all over the nation. And you
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One Tennessee school system used funds provided by a federal grant to install GPS tracking systems on a large percentage of its school buses. An official estimated that between one half to three quarts of the buses used by the school system now have GPS tracking devices that work in conjunction with video surveillance cameras.
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An online article I read mentioned that last week Good Morning America did a story about how some car dealers are installing GPS tracking devices on the cars that they sell to people who do not have good credit. The idea is that this is a preventative measure: the care dealers will be able to
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One parent, who also writes for his local newspaper, penned a column stating that as a journalist he has written too many articles about young people having their lives cut short by car accidents. So when one of his teenaged children was recently given a driver’s license he could not help but think on all
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It has been documented that the teenage mind, although maturing, has not quite reached maturity. Teenagers, even the most well-behaved teens, are not always good when it comes to calculating risk. Teenagers are known to take more risks than adult drivers. Knowing this as a parent empowers you to do what you can to mitigate
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