New York City's Department of Education gave its supervisors cell phones with a lot of neat features ... including GPS. Then they used the GPS module to see if they were at work when stamped time cards purportedly documented they were working. A judge has recommended firing one guy who was caught out. Should we look for Congressional Democrats to implement a similar plan to give cell phones to all suspected terrorists?
The evidence against Halpin, whose base pay is $300 a day, included time cards that suspiciously appeared stamped on the same machine, even though his duties placed him in different locations each day.
But there was a clincher: data gathered through the GPS system on Halpin's cellphone, which he accepted in 2005 without being told it might be used to trace his every move.
On March 8, for example, supervisors determined that Halpin was last in Manhattan at 1:31 p.m. and was home in Levittown, L.I., at 2:40 p.m. On March 29, Halpin was found at home at 2:38 p.m.
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