US EditionAfter Escape in Slender Man Case, DOC Says It Will Alert Police Sooner to GPS Monitor Tampering
After Morgan Geyser removed her GPS bracelet and fled, the Wisconsin DOC revised protocols to send apprehension requests immediately, reducing over two-hour response delays during tamper alerts.
- On Nov. 22, Morgan Geyser, 23, removed her GPS monitor and the Wisconsin Department of Corrections is investigating its response and has updated its tamper notification to send apprehension requests immediately.
- DOC Secretary Jared Hoy said the Emergency Monitoring Center was overwhelmed handling nearly 400 alarms amid a 21% vacancy rate, causing over two hours to pass before an apprehension request.
- The tamper alarm sounded at 9:38 p.m., and operators started reset attempts at 11:10 p.m., with an apprehension request entered at 12:05 a.m., and DOC staff notified the Dane County Sheriff's Department the next morning.
- The agency has already implemented initial procedural changes while three DOC staff members remain on administrative leave as personnel investigations proceed, Hoy wrote.
- Lawmakers asked for a timeline and records on Nov. 25, pressing the department for answers as Hoy’s Dec. 4 letter released Dec. 9 pledges a detailed after-action review while Geyser was extradited from Posen, Illinois to Waukesha County Jail.
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