The court withheld adjudication and placed Odum on six months community control, during which time he was to wear a radio monitoring device that would track his whereabouts. He was also placed on two years probation. The repeated violations led a judge to impose, in February 2000, the guilty verdict he had put aside in 1995. The lewd and lascivious act was defined as fondling. As a result, Odum is currently enrolled in sexual counseling and is serving two years of probation under community control.
Authorities are able to track the offender's movements through the radio signal.
But even with 24-hour surveillance, a determined offender can find ways to beat the system. The GPS unit that we have is the best mechanism to monitor anybody's whereabouts 24 hours a day. They're not perfect, nothing is. But it's the best monitoring mechanism we've ever had. Chambers says Odum's status under community control suggests his case is serious.