Alvin Notice, the father of Tina Notice who was murdered last year on Valentine’s Day, claims that if her stalker boyfriend had had a GPS tracking device installed on him the murder would never have happened. Ms. Notice, who was 25 at the time of her murder, was stabbed outside her apartment. In a 911 call to police, she had indicated that it was her ex-boyfriend, James Carter II, was the one who had stabbed her.
At the time, Ms. Notice had filed and received a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend. She had even called the police earlier that same day because of some emails that she received from Carter that are alleged to be of a harassing nature. Carter has currently been charged with murder and has chosen to enter a plea of no guilty with the court.
It is in this context that Alvin Notice is calling for GPS trackers to be installed on domestic violence perpetrators. “I want Connecticut to be a place where a domestic violence offender would say, ‘I don’t want to be in this state,’” Notice said in a rally outside the Capitol building in Hartford, Connecticut.
Mr. Notice perhaps has gained inspiration for his desire to monitor domestic violence offenders from neighboring Massachusetts. In 2006 this state passed a law that allowed the GPS monitoring of restraining orders, and since the laws enactment there have been no violations of the orders. This is according to Diane Rosenfeld, a lecturer at Harvard Law School.
To channel his outrage, Mr. Notice has created the Tiana Angelique Notice Foundation in an effort to promote awareness of issues faced by domestic violence sufferers and to lobby the government in Connecticut to institute mandatory GPS tracking for domestic violence cases.
Source: The Bristol Press