My name is Jennifer Keane. I am a mother, an artist, a writer, and I am a stalking victim.  

According to the National Center for Domestic Violence, 89% of murdered women who  had been physically assaulted prior to their murder were also stalked in the last year prior to their murder, while 85% of women who survived murder attempts were also stalked.  

Stalking is a gateway crime that is an indicator and precursor for the murder, rape, kidnapping, and human trafficking of women and children.  

Right now, in most states, someone can--without your permission or knowledge--put a GPS on your car, in your purse, even on your child's' car seat or in her backpack and track you everywhere you go--multiple times a day. They can do it for years. Even If, they were caught, it would most likely be a  fine at worst, and in many places, there is no law against it--at all. Even where we have laws against place, the penalties are not sufficient to have a deterrent effect on a stalker. For an obsessed stalker, a fine is no deterrent. 

We want to change the laws to make it a felony to GPS stalk, and to make each incidence of the stalker checking someone's location, or their child's location, a separate charge.  

GPS stalking is a weapon. By changing the laws, and the penalties on the existing laws, we can end or severely curtail GPS stalking, taking it out of the hands of predators with the stroke of a pen.  

And for the sake of the women and children that will be murdered and assaulted using this technology...we should. 

We are trying to change the laws on GPS stalking. In Minnesota, you have to go before a judge to even get a GPS device, and in Wisconsin, if you place a GPS device on someone without their knowledge, it is a separate charge of a crime for each instance where the stalker checks your location. We need to combine those two elements and pass a new, tougher GPS Stalking law!   Click here to sign the petition:

https://chng.it/J9RJY8f8