In recent years, increased legislative attention has been given to strategies to supervise sex offenders in the community. Among other policies, several states have passed laws calling for the use of electronic monitoring technologies to supervise sex offenders in the community. When initially developed, this community-based sanction was designed for less serious offenders. As a result, probation and parole officers who have been using electronic monitoring technologies have likely had little exposure to the sex offender population. Alternatively, those who have historically worked with sex offenders have had little exposure to electronic monitoring strategies. In the end, those supervising sex offenders in the community will need to be familiar with two divergent areas (e.g., electronic monitoring and sex offending) as well as the potential consequences that arise when community-based sanctions are applied to groups of offenders who have traditionally been outside of the scope of these sanctions. In this article, attention is given to (1) sex offending, (2) electronic monitoring, (3) the deterrent potential of electronic monitoring, (4) efforts to apply the electronic monitoring sanction to sex offenders, (5) the potential unintended consequences stemming from the monitoring policies, and (6) recommendations for practitioners involved with the electronic monitoring and researchers studying the topic.