GPS: A halfway step

The latest legislative brainstorm: Global position monitoring of convicted child molesters for the rest of their lives, at a cost of $10,000 a year per person.

The Department of Corrections said could total $477 million over the next 20 years.

But forget the cost. There's a bigger problem. We would know where the offenders were, but not what they were doing.

A modest proposal:

Instead of a GPS chip, how about installing a small video camera in the forehead of every child molester, so we could monitor, 24 hours a day, what they are doing and seeing? We would still need the GPS chip, so law enforcement could find them when they were doing something naughty.

I don't have a cost estimate, but money's no object when it comes to dealing with these perverts. Why go halfway?