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NO. SJC-10824 PURSUANT TO GLC 211, 5 3 FROM ... - Mass Cases

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States government retains sole authority and<br />

control over the Global Positioning System, which<br />

is maintained by the United States military under<br />

the authority of the Secretary of Defense. Federal<br />

Statute Title 10, c. 136, 5 2281. (Addendum, p. 10-12).<br />

Thus, when GPS technology is used by locaL law<br />

enforcement and state agencies, pursuant to G.L.c.<br />

265, 5 47 (intrusion by the state), and the state<br />

physically attaches the GPS devise to the body of<br />

a person (electronic fetters), that person is deemed<br />

"SEIZED", and the body of the person himself becomes<br />

the host property of the electronic device (GPS)<br />

used by the state to continuously monitor, track,<br />

and record personal data on the locations,movements,<br />

and activities oE convicted sex offenders, which<br />

implicates state sanction seizures that impinge<br />

upon a person's constitutional rights under the<br />

Fourth Amendment and Art. 14. 7/ commonwealth V.<br />

Cory, 454 <strong>Mass</strong>. 559 (2009); and Commonwealth V.<br />

Raposo, 453 <strong>Mass</strong>. 739 (2009).<br />

7/ See Richard G. Wright, Symposium: Parole and<br />

Probation: Sex Offender Post-Incarceration<br />

Sanctions: Are There Any Limits? (zoo$), New<br />

England Journal On Criminal and Civil Confine-<br />

ment; and R.J. Parker, Case Gommment: Common-<br />

wealth v. Morasse n. 1: Elome Confinement: Stret-<br />

ching the Limits On Restricting a Probationer's<br />

Liberty. (2008), New England Journal On Criminal<br />

and Civil Confinement.<br />

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