How easy to blame on your son. Would the answer change if it was a daughter? If so, then the next answer would be my dog was up late night and was bored doing his/her night shift

It's a shame that there isn't a plug about the software used.

If he probation office didn't want the laptop to go missing, why didn't they just order up a full sized computer?

I mean, that is why people are supposed to have laptops, to take with them.

It also sounds like they need someone better in the government IT department.

Giv' um 5 years more in da can for being a moron; help us all keep him out of reproductive cycle longer by attributing that to natural selection. Stealing a laptop and then keeping the anti-theft software on it, that is evolutionary equivalent to being a dodo bird.
Boy, will he be popular in the joint with his old pal's he sent back for parole violations :)

At least we know the tracking software works.