ATLANTA — Halloween signs and legal hurdles tripped up legislation aimed at requiring repeat sexual offenders to wear electronic ankle monitors for life in Georgia that a state House panel examined this week.
Lawmakers are hustling to continue monitoring sex offenders classified as “sexually dangerous predators” following a Georgia Supreme Court ruling last year that upended the practice of automatic lifetime ankle monitoring absent a judge’s sentence.
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