{"id":707354,"date":"2022-06-19T19:03:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T19:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/jun\/19\/gps-tagging-of-migrants-appears-to-contradict-home-office-guidance"},"modified":"2022-06-19T19:03:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T19:03:37","slug":"gps-tagging-of-migrants-appears-to-contradict-home-office-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/06\/19\/gps-tagging-of-migrants-appears-to-contradict-home-office-guidance\/","title":{"rendered":"GPS tagging of migrants appears to contradict Home Office guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Document published this year does not mention asylum seekers as priority group for \u2018intrusive policy\u2019<\/p><p>The Home Office appears to have contradicted its own guidance on GPS tagging, which prioritised \u201cvery high harm offenders\u201d, after it announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/jun\/19\/outrage-over-scheme-to-electronically-tag-refugees-arriving-in-the-uk\">the devices would be used on asylum seekers<\/a> arriving in the UK.<\/p><p>An 86-page <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/1051204\/immigration_bail.pdf\">guidance<\/a> document titled \u201cImmigration Bail\u201d was published on 31 January 2022. It includes a large section about the GPS tagging of migrants and does not mention asylum seekers who have not committed crimes as a priority group for GPS tagging.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/jun\/19\/gps-tagging-of-migrants-appears-to-contradict-home-office-guidance\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/jun\/19\/gps-tagging-of-migrants-appears-to-contradict-home-office-guidance\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Document published this year does not mention asylum seekers as priority group for \u2018intrusive policy\u2019The Home Office appears to have contradicted its own guidance on GPS tagging, which prioritised \u201cvery high harm offenders\u201d, after it announced the devi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3056,6,3055,14,238,3254,1314],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707355,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707354\/revisions\/707355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}