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Missoula-based AquilaVision’s "OTTER" Offender-tracking system funded in Montana

February 14, 2008 /

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A 2008 Congressional spending bill will send over $650,000 to Montana to help reduce the number of non-violent offenders housed in public detention facilities by spurring development of improved offender-tracking technology that monitors would-be prisoners while they roam at large.

A good part of the federal money will go to the Montana Offender Notification and Tracking System project, or MONTS. Bringing together Missoula-based AquilaVision http://www.aquilavision.com/ , the Montana Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association http://www.mspoa.org/ and a group called MonTEC, the program will add refinements to an offender tracking system called OTTER, originally developed by AquilaVision http://www.aquilavision.com/ . The OTTER system uses satellite signals to track offenders and vehicles through a real-time, internet-accessible mapping format.

By: Rob Harper

Full Story: http://www.missoulanews.com/index.cfm?do=article.details&id=14C4CB2B-14D1-13A2-9F04C743E5FBF915

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