Oklahomans Can Soon Keep Track Of Criminals

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Victims of violent crime in Oklahoma will soon be able to keep track of their attackers as they move through the criminal justice system.<br/><br/>Attorney General Drew Edmondson

Friday, June 2nd 2006, 2:44 pm

By: News On 6

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Victims of violent crime in Oklahoma will soon be able to keep track of their attackers as they move through the criminal justice system.

Attorney General Drew Edmondson says his office is getting a $1.2-million federal grant to implement the system contained in a law approved this year.

The law is called the Caitlin Wooten Act after a 16-year-old Ada girl who was kidnapped and killed last year by a man who was free on bail after being charged with kidnapping Caitlin's mother.

Edmondson says his office will implement the system to eventually allow all Oklahomans to track the custody status of any offender in the state's criminal justice system.

He says the system is already operating in Tulsa County and will be installed in Oklahoma, Cleveland and Comanche County within three months and will be in place in all 77 counties within two years.