In these two appeals, the court concludes that continuous satellite-based monitoring under the Sex Offender Monitoring Act (SOMA), N.J.S.A. 30:4-123.89 to -123.95, is a "special needs search," which may be justified only if the governmental need to monitor convicted sex offenders outweighs their privacy interests. That balancing of interests favors monitoring of H.R., whose expectation of privacy is limited because he is on parole supervision for life. However, monitoring violates the rights of I.R., who has greater expectation of privacy than H.R., because he is not on parole supervision. Therefore, the court affirms the trial court's order sustaining SOMA monitoring in H.R.'s case, but not in I.R.'s case.