Nov-06-2009Report: GPS parole monitoring of Phillip Garrido failed
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CONTENTS:SOURCESFIND OUT MORE ON THIS SUBJECTSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Corrections officials failed to properly supervise convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido and missed opportunities to discover the girl he allegedly kidnapped and held in his backyard for 18 years, a report released Wednesday said. The review by state Inspector General David Shaw blasted the handling of Garrido's case by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation during the decade he was under state supervision after being paroled in a previous rape case. The report said parole agents were not trained to conduct home visits and did not follow up on information that showed Garrido violated his parole. It also faulted the state's GPS-monitoring system, saying it gives the public a false sense of security concerning the whereabouts of offenders. Shaw said the GPS system falls short of its potential and recommended developing and implementing a comprehensive monitoring policy. Police have said Garrido held Jaycee Dugard captive and raped her in a backyard encampment of tents during a period from 1999 until his arrest in August. He allegedly fathered her two children.
[1] San Francisco, California (CNN) -- California parole officers "missed numerous opportunities" to discover long-missing Jaycee Dugard while supervising the man now accused of kidnapping and raping her, a state review of the case concludes. Phillip Garrido was a registered sex offender on parole between January 1988 and August, when Dugard, who had been missing for 18 years, was discovered living in a shed in his backyard in Antioch, California. In a report issued Wednesday, the state inspector-general's office found the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation failed to properly keep tabs on Garrido or properly supervise the officers assigned to his case. "While it is true that Garrido's California parole was never officially violated, our review shows that Garrido committed numerous parole violations and that the department failed to properly supervise Garrido and missed numerous opportunities to discover his victims," the report states. Parole officers failed to investigate utility wires running from Garrido's house toward the shed where Dugard was held, to check out the presence of a 12-year-old girl during a visit or to act on information the report said clearly showed Garrido had violated the terms of his release.
[2] San Francisco - California's top prison watchdog issued a damning report Wednesday that said the state's parole system failed in basic measures, which could have led to the apprehension of convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido years before his victim Jaycee Dugard was released after 18 years in captivity. The report by California Inspector General David R Shaw found that the state parole division supervising Garrido for the past decade could have discovered Dugard, and her two children fathered by him, much earlier than August, when he was arrested. The report said Garrido "committed numerous parole violations and that the department failed to properly supervise Garrido and missed numerous opportunities to discover his victims."
[3] State parole officials who oversaw the man now charged with Jaycee Dugard's abduction and years-long sexual bondage repeatedly missed chances to discover Jaycee and her girls, even failing to look into a 12-year-old girl a parole agent found during a visit to Phillip Garrido's home near Antioch, according to a scathing report released today by a state watchdog agency. The report, by the state Inspector General's Office, chides parole officials who have repeatedly claimed that Garrido complied fully with his parole conditions. "While it is true that Garrido's California parole was never officially violated," the report states, "our review shows that Garrido committed numerous parole violations and that the department failed to properly supervise Garrido and missed numerous opportunities to discover his victims." The agency, which oversees California's prisons and correctional programs, released a summary of the report this morning.
[4] The Office of the Inspector General released a 45-page report yesterday stating that California parole officers failed to properly supervise
Phillip Garrido who is accused of kidnapping Jaycee Dugard and holding her captive for 18 years. After a month long investigation, they determined that there were more than a dozen failures from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation over the last ten years. "Our review shows that Garrido committed numerous parole violations and that the department failed to properly supervise Garrido and missed numerous opportunities to discover his victims," the report read. Failure to adequately classify Garrido - who had a history as a sexually violent predator - and supervise him accordingly.
[5] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California parole officials failed to properly supervise the rapist accused of kidnapping Jaycee Dugard and missed "numerous" clues during her 18 years of captivity, a prison watchdog said in a report released on Wednesday. The report by California's inspector general found that 58-year-old Phillip Garrido, who is charged with abducting Dugard, committed a series of parole violations that should have led to his earlier capture.
[6] SAN FRANCISCO — The convicted rapist who allegedly kidnapped Jaycee Dugard and held her for 18 years was classified as a low-risk sexual offender and authorities missed multiple opportunities to catch him earlier, an official report into the case said Wednesday. The damning report, released by the state's inspector general, acknowledged that Phillip Garrido was under little supervision during the years he allegedly kept Dugard as a virtual sex slave in a makeshift compound in his yard. Garrido and his wife Nancy are accused of kidnapping Dugard as an 11-year-old in South Lake Tahoe, California, in 1991, just three years after he was released from prison in Nevada after serving less than 11 years of a 50-year sentence for a previous rape. Dugard, now 29, was found alive in August after allegedly being imprisoned by the Garridos at their home in Antioch, east of San Francisco. "There were missed clues and opportunities to discover her existence," Inspector General David Shaw said at a news conference in Sacramento.
[7] SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California corrections officials say they're working to improve the monitoring of released sex offenders, responding to a scathing report that cited missed chances to catch the suspect accused of holding Jaycee Dugard captive for 18 years. The department was slammed in a report released Wednesday by state Inspector General David Shaw for its supervision of convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido, who has been charged with the abduction, rape and imprisonment of Dugard. When Dugard was finally reunited with her family in August, police say she had spent 18 years living in a ramshackle backyard compound of tents and sheds with two daughters fathered by Garrido. Dugard repeatedly tried to conceal her identity in the hours before it was revealed, telling authorities she was hiding from an abusive husband in Minnesota and defending Garrido, the report says. "We obviously deeply regret any error that could have possibly resulted in the victims living under these conditions for even one additional day," Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary Matthew Cate said Wednesday. He said legislation taking effect in January should help reduce caseloads and create a risk-based supervision model to ensure the most dangerous offenders receive the closest watch.
[8] The report by the state inspector general, largely devoted to spelling out missteps by parole agents assigned to monitor Garrido, shows that after 18 years in captivity, Dugard exhibited indications of Stockholm syndrome - the phenomenon in which some victims come to identify with their captors. The questioning took place Aug. 26 at a state parole office in Concord, a day after Garrido had aroused UC Berkeley officers' suspicions when he showed up on campus with Dugard's daughters, ages 15 and 11 - whom authorities now believe he fathered. Dugard, 29, identified herself as Alyssa, the girls' mother, and laughed off a parole agent's comment that she looked too young to have children that old, the report said. She soon grew agitated at the questioning, however, and said she knew that Garrido, convicted in Nevada of a 1976 kidnapping and rape, was a sex offender. "She added that Garrido was a changed man and a great person who was good with her kids," Inspector General David Shaw wrote in the report. "Alyssa subsequently stated that she didn't want to provide any additional information and that she might need a lawyer." When the parole agent asked her for identification, Dugard replied that "she had learned a long time ago not to carry or give any personal information to anyone" and again asked for a lawyer, the report said. Soon, however, Dugard admitted she had lied and "explained that she was from Minnesota and had been hiding for five years from an abusive husband," the report said. "She was terrified of being found, she said, and that was the reason she could not give the parole agent any information." After Garrido admitted he had kidnapped and raped "Alyssa," she identified herself as Jaycee Dugard, the report said.
[9] The department also failed to train parole agents to conduct parolee home visits, failed to properly supervise parole agents responsible for Garrido and failed to adequately classify Garrido, the report said. The report blasted the satellite tracking systems trumpeted by state prison officials and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as a tool for monitoring sex offenders, often with ankle bracelets, calling them ineffective and saying they give the public a false sense of security. Shaw said parole agents didn't revoke Garrido's parole and send him to prison when his tracking device indicated that he had strayed beyond the permitted radius from his home. They also failed to properly investigate obvious clues to the hidden compound where Dugard and her daughters were kept even when a parole officer discovered a young girl at the house on one of his visits, the report said. Garrido and his wife Nancy are accused of kidnapping Dugard outside her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991, when she was 11. They allegedly held her for 18 years in a tent encampment in the yard of their suburban home in Antioch, central California, during which time Garrido repeatedly raped her and fathered two girls with her.
[3] The department also failed to train parole agents to conduct parolee home visits, failed to properly supervise parole agents responsible for Garrido and failed to adequately classify Garrido, the summary said. It did not delve into the details of the findings and did not explain how agents failed to supervise him. The office released the summary on its Web site and planned an afternoon news conference to release the full document. The two-month inquiry was launched after Garrido and his wife were arrested for allegedly kidnapping Jaycee Dugard and holding her captive in his backyard. Questions arose about how Garrido managed to keep Dugard hidden for so long despite being monitored by parole officers because of a previous rape conviction, even as he was being monitored by parole officers because of a previous rape conviction. The office has said its report would include recommendations for improving parolee supervision statewide. Garrido, 58, was under federal parole supervision and required to register as a sex offender when he and his wife, Nancy Garrido, allegedly snatched Dugard outside her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991.
[10] While some reactions were predictably angry, others were more tolerant. "They should have known what was going on down here," said John Wadkins. "It's easy to place blame after the fact.' I think Garrido was able to con and lie and fool everybody.' How can you fault someone for being fooled?" said neighbor Rod Burn. The'Office of the Inspector General released its findings on the Garrido case Wednesday, blasting the Department of'Corrections for how poorly it handled Garrido's parole. It claimed the department failed to supervise Garrido, obtain key information from federal parole officials, supervise parole agents responsible for Garrido,'among many other criticisms. Garrido and his wife Nancy allegedly kept Jaycee Dugard captive'at his Antioch home for the 18 years she was missing. This isn't the first time a government agency admitted it mishandled Garrido.' The Contra Costa County Sheriff earlier said his department needed to be "more curious," when it responded to a call about Garrido, a registered sex offender, having people living in his backyard.
[11] The report revealed a litany of mistakes and inaction by the six state parole agents who supervised Garrido from June 1999 to through August. California Inspector General David R. Shaw found that out of 123 months, Garrido was properly supervised during only 12 of those. There were extensive periods some as long as a year during which an agent never visited the home, his report says. Even after Garrido was placed on GPS supervision in April 2008, agents ignored repeated instances when he traveled outside a 25-mile radius that he was not supposed to leave or when the device simply stopped functioning. In one period, the signal for the GPS device was lost 335 times, and 276 of those times, agents simply ignored the malfunctions. In 59 of those instances, agents acknowledged that the signal had been lost but took no action. Corrections director Matthew Cate said many of the problems with Garrido's supervision stemmed from actions taken when he came under their supervision 10 years ago. The original agent never read Garrido's federal parole file, which contained a diagram and description of the size of Garrido's large back yard where he allegedly hid Dugard and her children. The inspector general's report says state parole agents failed to investigate why there was a 12-year-old girl inside the home of a registered sex offender and why "clearly visible utility lines" were running from Garrido's home to a concealed compound where he allegedly kept Dugard. Shaw said in his two-month investigation that he found "systemic problems that transcend parolee Garrido's case and jeopardize public safety."
[12] Federal officials discharged Garrido from federal parole in March 1999. He was technically under the supervision of Nevada authorities because of his conviction for the 1976 rape, which took place in Reno. In June 1999 he became the responsibility of California parole agents because he was living in Antioch. During the next 10 years, California parole agents failed repeatedly to supervise him properly, the inspector general found, missing opportunities to detect Dugard as well as the two daughters she bore to Garrido at the home. He was under "passive GPS" monitoring, meaning he was required to wear a monitoring device that was reviewed at certain times to see where he had been. He was one of 40 parolees assigned to his agent. Following Dugard's rescue, corrections officials called a press conference to label the parole agent a "hero" for discovering her, and corrections officials continued after that to state that he had acted "by the book" and should be commended for finally discovering her. Cate said Wednesday that his department could have done more.
[12] A neighbor in 1991 -- the year of the kidnapping -- reported seeing a young blond girl in the backyard who said her name was Jaycee. In 2008 a parole office found a young girl in Garrido's house, a direct violation of his parole, but did nothing. Garrido, a man with a violent history of rape and kidnapping, was considered a minimum-level offender when authorities now say he should have been classified as a highly dangerous predator. California Inspector General David Shaw said his department's review found that Garrido was properly supervised for 12 out of the 123 months he was under California's jurisdiction, a failure rate of 90 percent. Dugard was found in August, 18 years after her 1991 kidnapping. She was rescued after Garrido, 58, took her two daughters to hand out religious material at the UC Berkeley campus, tipping off two police employees there. A background check showed that Garrido was a registered sex offender and his nearly two-decades-old crime unraveled when he showed up at a meeting with his parole officer with Dugard and the two girls in tow.
[13] SAN FRANCISCO — California's inspector general plans to release the results of a two-month inquiry into the handling of the Jaycee Dugard's kidnapping case. Wednesday's release might answer a major question: How did suspect Phillip Garrido allegedly manage to keep her hidden from authorities for 18 years even as he was being monitored by parole officers because of a previous rape conviction. Authorities say Garrido was under federal parole supervision and required to register as a sex offender when he allegedly snatched Dugard in 1991. The 29-year-old Dugard was reunited with her family in August.
[14] BOISE -- A kidnapping in California is putting parole officers under the spotlight across the nation. The report says california parole officers failed to properly supervise sex offender Phillip Garrido and completely missed that Jaycee Dugard was helpd prisoner in his backyard for 18 years.
[15] Two months ago, when Jaycee Dugard was discovered to be alive 19 years after her abduction in South Lake Tahoe, the nation was shocked. When it was revealed that the 29 year old was now a mother of two and that her and her children were living in makeshift tents in the backyard of sex offender parolee Phillip Garrido and his wife, that shock turned to outrage. Yesterday the California Inspector General's Office determined that the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation "failed to properly supervise Garrido and missed numerous opportunities to discover his victims."
[16] A monthslong investigation headed by California Inspector General David R. Shaw turned up more than a dozen failures on the part of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which had been assigned to supervise Phillip Garrido, a registered sex offender, for the last 10 years. "Our review shows that Garrido committed numerous parole violations and that the department failed to properly supervise Garrido and missed numerous opportunities to discover his victims," the report read. Failure to adequately classify Garrido - who had a history as a sexually violent predator - and supervise him accordingly.
[17] The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation also failed to refer Garrido for a mental health assessment, according to the report by the state Inspector General's Office. The summary said Garrido "committed numerous parole violations and that the department failed to properly supervise Garrido and missed numerous opportunities to discover his victims."
[10] Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, were arrested in August 2009 and charged with kidnapping, rape and imprisonment. California corrections workers failed to properly supervise parolee Phillip Garrido and missed opportunities to find the girl he is accused of kidnapping and holding in his backyard for 18 years, says the state's Office of Inspector General.
[18] A blistering new report concludes that California state corrections officials failed repeatedly to properly supervise rape and kidnapping suspect Phillip Garrido for 10 years, missing numerous opportunities to discover that he allegedly had kept Jaycee Lee Dugard captive in his Antioch-area backyard during the time authorities were supposed to be keeping watch over him.
[19] SACRAMENTO, Calif. A blistering new report concludes that California state corrections officials failed repeatedly to properly supervise accused rapist and kidnapper Phillip Garrido for 10 years, missing numerous opportunities to discover that he had allegedly kept Jaycee Lee Dugard captive in his Antioch, Calif. -area back yard during the entire time California authorities were supposed to be keeping watch over him.
[12] A report into the capture of Jaycee Dugard has found parole officers in California failed to properly supervise her abductor. Phillip Garrido, who has been accused of abducting Jaycee when she was 11 and repeatedly raping her and keeping her captive, should have been under better supervision. The report is highly critical of the officials involved, who failed to find Jaycee despite making 60 visits to Garrido's home where she was allegedly kept in ramshackle huts in the garden. The review claims Garrido, who has pleaded not guilty along with his wife Nancy, was wrongly classified as low-risk, despite being on parole for rape after Jaycee was taken. Garrido was released from prison in 1988 after serving 11-years of a 50-year sentence for rape; just three years later he allegedly took Jaycee from her outside her home in California, and kept her captive for 18-years, fathering two children with her.
[20] Parole officers in California missed numerous chances to free kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard and failed to properly supervise her alleged abductor Phillip Garrido, according to a report.
[21] When police arrived Garrido finally confessed the truth, says the report. It states: "During further questioning, Alyssa identified herself as Jaycee Dugard and confirmed that she had been kidnapped and raped by Garrido. The report revealed that Jaycee had known he was a convicted sex offender but told officers this summer that he was a "changed man and a great person who was good with her kids". The report released by the California Office of the Inspector General said Garrido's parole officers missed several chances to rescue Jaycee, now 29, and the two daughters, 11 and 15, she had by him while in captivity. Although Garrido was tagged parole agents ignored signals showing he was spending huge amounts of time in his garden. They also ignored 335 alerts that his device had lost its signal.
[22] The scathing report, released Wednesday by the California Office of the Inspector General, said Phillip Garrido's parole officers missed several chances to rescue the now 29-year-old Dugard and the two daughters fathered by the registered sex offender. Garrido was outfitted with GPS monitoring, according to the report, but parole agents ignored 335 alerts that his device had lost its signal, which Cate blamed on the location of his house and poor reception. Other signals showed Garrido was spending a considerable amount of time in his backyard.
[13] The system is supposed to keep the public safe ''' and make it easier for parole agents to track dangerous felons. That system is broken, and giving the public "a false sense of security," according to a new report. California Inspector General David Shaw issued a 40-page
indictment Wednesday of the state's parole system for its failure to keep track of parolee Phillip Garrido, the convicted sex offender arrested in August for the 1991 kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard.
[23] A California Inspector General report Thursday slammed the state parole system for failing to track Phillip Garrido, the convicted sex offender who kidnapped Jaycee Dugard.
[23] SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A state report released Wednesday blasts corrections officials for missing chances to catch the sex offender accused of holding Jaycee Dugard captive in his backyard for 18 years. The 45-page report by the state inspector general paints a heartbreaking picture of overlooked opportunities to rescue Dugard, but also contains new details of the now 29-year-old's first interactions with law enforcement after her captivity. It says Dugard repeatedly tried to conceal her identity in the hours before it was revealed, telling authorities she was hiding from an abusive husband in Minnesota and defending Phillip Garrido, the man now charged in her abduction and rape.
[24] Reporting from Sacramento - Jaycee Dugard first told authorities that her name was "Alyssa" and tried to protect Phillip Garrido, who is accused of kidnapping her 18 years ago, when she was 11, raping her and fathering her two children, according to a report released Wednesday by David Shaw, California's inspector general for state prisons.
[25] SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCBS) -- Parole reforms are on the horizon in California following measures approved by lawmakers last month, and following a scathing report about the supervision of Phillip Garrido who is accused of kidnapping Jaycee Dugard, raping her, and holding her captive for 18 years. State Prisons chief Matt Cate says improvements to the parole system will focus parole supervision on high risk offenders, reducing supervision on parolees who have committed low level violations, and allowing smaller caseloads for those supervising more serious offenders.
[26] Cate acknowledged "serious errors" and said the lessons learned are being implemented. He also said new legislation would focus parole supervision on high risk offenders and reduce caseloads. He added that parole agents will be required to more routinely monitor the GPS tracking data that alerts agents of a parolee's whereabouts. Dugard's identity was discovered when she, her daughters and Garrido and his wife went to the office of Phillip Garrido's parole agent. Dugard said her name was Alyssa. Investigators grew suspicious of the relationship between Garrido, Dugard and the daughters and separated them into different rooms, according to the report. Garrido told another agent that Dugard and the girls were his nieces. At one point, Dugard "explained that she was from Minnesota and had been hiding for five years from an abusive husband, the report said. "She was terrified of being found, she said, and that was the reason she could not give the parole agent any information." Garrido eventually told the parole agent he had kidnapped and raped Dugard, the report said, an account later confirmed by Dugard, who then identified herself.
[8] As the agent began questioning them, "Alyssa" became "defensive and agitated," the report said. "Alyssa said she was aware that Garrido was a sex offender who was on parole for kidnapping and raping a woman," the report said. "She added that Garrido was a changed man and a great person who was good with her kids." When the parole agent asked her for identification, the Chronicle reported, Dugard replied that "she had learned a long time ago not to carry or give any personal information to anyone," and asked for a lawyer, the report said. She "explained that she was from Minnesota and had been hiding for five years from an abusive husband," the report said. "She was terrified of being found, she said." Garrido, who was questioned separately, then admitted he was the father of the two girls and that he had kidnapped and raped "Alyssa," the report said. "Alyssa" confirmed she was Jaycee Lee Dugard.
[27] A new report finds that parole agents
missed opportunities to find kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard. For 10 years, parole agents in charge of supervising Phillip Garrido failed to pick up on some obvious clues that might have led them to find the kidnap victim and her children. The
report says it would have been relatively easy for agents to find that Garrido had a secret compound in the backyard and that he spent lots of time there.
[28] "The department failed to utilize tools that could have led to the discovery of Jaycee Dugard and her children," Shaw said. Though state parole agents made 60 visits to Garrido's home, Shaw said, they failed to discover the backyard compound or notice electric and other wires running from the house to buildings in the yard. They failed to follow up after encountering a 12-year-old girl, believed to be one of Jaycee Dugard's daughters, in Garrido's home during one of those visits. Matthew Cate, secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, acknowledged at the news conference that his department had made significant errors over the past 10 years and said his agents "have the responsibility to protect the public from this abject evil."
[7] "No one can know, had the parole agents done everything right, whether we would have discovered Jaycee and her children any sooner," Shaw, who conducted a two-month investigation, told reporters Wednesday. "However, our investigation revealed that there were missed clues and opportunities to discover their existence sooner than they did." The state prisons chief, Matthew Cate, acknowledged "serious errors" and said his department had improved its supervision of high-risk offenders and would continue to do so to protect the public from this sort of "abject evil." "We obviously deeply regret any error that could have possibly resulted in the victims living under these conditions for even one additional day," Cate said. Garrido and his wife are accused of kidnapping Dugard outside her South Lake Tahoe home when she was 11. Local police agencies also have been criticized for missing chances to find her earlier. Have federal officials for imprisoning him for just 11 years for a rape and kidnapping in Nevada in 1976, though he received a 50-year federal sentence and five years to life in Nevada.
[29] Garrido was on parole, first under federal supervision and later under supervision by a California state parole agent, for a 1977 conviction for rape and kidnapping. Garrido was supposed to serve 50 years to life in federal prison for his rape and kidnap of a 25-year-old casino worker he abducted from the Tahoe area in November 1976, the second of two women he dragged into his car that day, court records show. He was released in January 1988 after 11 years in prison and placed under federal supervision. He moved back into his mother's home in the Antioch area with his wife, Nancy. Federal parole records obtained by The Sacramento Bee through the Freedom of Information Act show he was praised as a model parolee. Federal agents never knew that during the period they supervised him he had allegedly kidnapped Dugard and kept her hidden. Even after he returned to prison in 1993 for a short period for a marijuana violation, Dugard was not discovered.
[12] Garrido had been under parole supervision because of a 1977 conviction for raping a 25-year-old woman. He was released from prison in 1988 and placed under federal supervision until 1999, when California took over. The report said at least six parole agents were assigned to Garrido's case during the 10 years he was being handled by California. Shaw said the mistakes started right away, from originally classifying Garrido as a low risk offender, which meant looser controls on him, to neglecting to review his federal parole file, which revealed a federal agent had searched the secret backyard within a backyard where Dugard and the children allegedly lived.
[8] Many warning signs were overlooked or ignored, according to Inspector General David R. Shaw. Utility cables led to a hidden backyard compound where Garrido kept Dugard and the two girls he fathered by her. Data from the satellite tracking device the state made him wear could have alerted his parole agent to his presence in that area, had it been reviewed. Federal parole records, not obtained by the state, noted that he had a soundproof room in his yard. Young girls had been spotted at his house but did not trigger further investigation. Last year, Shaw's report says, Garrido's parole agent met a 12-year-old girl at Garrido's house, accepted his explanation that she was his brother's daughter and did nothing to verify it.
[29] For starters, authorities did nothing when Garrido's electronic monitor showed he'd traveled further from his home than permitted. Because of his violent history, Garrido should've received attention from officials, says Inspector General David Shaw's report. Parole agents seemed to go out of their way to ignore red flags. Officers didn't explore utility wires or other physical clues to the backyard compound where he was keeping Dugard and her daughters captive, even after one agent encountered a young girl at the house on a routine visit, the
LA Times reports.
[30] In the 60 home visits performed by the parole officer, even with obvious signs that something was amiss, there was no follow up. These "little details" included a neighbor reporting that she saw a young blonde girl in the backyard who identified herself as Jaycee and another time when a young female was spotted on the premises (a direct parole violation for Garrido) with no action taken by the parole board. A review by the
California Inspector General showed that Garrido was properly supervised for 12 out of the 123 months that he was on parole, which is a dismal success percentage even for a state government agency, but how successful those 12 months really were is dubious as there was a kidnap victim undiscovered in the backyard in those months as well. This story is probably not very surprising to anyone who has dealt with the gross incompetence of any of our wonderful government agencies here in the great state of California, let alone the parole board, and we can only look forward to it getting worse with two new threats to the parole system on the horizon. More budget cuts as a result of bickering and incompetence in the state legislature, and along with those cuts, more parolees being released in an additional effort to save the state money. This equation, plus the fact that job opportunities and
social safety nets will be scarce for these released parolees, looks to add up to many more stories like this one making headlines in the foreseeable future.
[31] California parole officers failed to properly supervise the man accused of holding Jaycee Dugard captive for 18 years and missed numerous opportunities to free her, according to a scathing report released today by the Office of the Inspector General.
[17] A new report finds that California authorities failed to properly supervise the man accused of kidnapping Jaycee Dugard.The report also says the Department Of Corrections And Rehabilitation missed opportunities to discover Dugard and failed to refer Garrido for a mental health assessment.The inquiry was launched after Garrido and his wife were arrested for allegedly kidnapping Dugard and holding her Captive for 18 years in his backyard.
[32] SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A new report finds that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation failed to properly supervise parolee Phillip Garrido and missed opportunities to discover the alleged kidnapping victim held for 18 years.
[33] SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Corrections officials failed to properly supervise parolee Phillip Garrido and missed opportunities to discover the girl he allegedly kidnapped and held in his backyard for 18 years, a report summary released Wednesday said.
[10] During the 18-years Dugard and her two daughters were held captive, Phillip Garrido was supposedly subjected to strict monitoring by parole officers. Despite wearing a GPS-linked ankle bracelet that tracked his movements, repeated visits with his parole officer, surprise home visits and random drug and alcohol tests, Dugard remained his captive, undetected by authorities. "Our review shows that Garrido committed numerous parole violations and that the department failed to properly supervise Garrido and missed numerous opportunities to discover his victims."
[34] Shaw criticized parole agents for not investigating the clearly visible utility wires running from Garrido's house to the secret compound; not talking to neighbors who might have said something about the children; and not questioning further the presence of a 12-year-old girl during a home visit. "The department failed to properly supervise Garrido and missed numerous opportunities to discover his victims," the report states.
[1] The department also failed to train parole agents to conduct parolee home visits, failed to properly supervise parole agents responsible for Garrido and failed to adequately classify Garrido, the report said. The two-month inquiry was launched after Garrido and his wife were arrested in August for allegedly kidnapping Dugard and holding her captive in their backyard in Antioch, a suburb of Oakland and San Francisco.
[18] Reporting from Sacramento - State parole agents failed to properly supervise Phillip Garrido for a decade and missed obvious clues that could have led them much earlier to Jaycee Dugard, whom he is accused of kidnapping in 1991 and harboring in his Antioch backyard, a prison watchdog reported Wednesday.
[29] Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped by a man in 1991, was failed by parole officials by not properly supervising the convicted rapist, by missing numerous clues that lead to the kidnap of the 11 year old. Phillip Garrido, who is 58 is charged with kidnapping Dugard, along with his 54-year-old wife Nancy from a street near her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991, 18 years ago when she was 11 years old.
[35] Parole officers in California repeatedly failed in their supervision of the man who allegedly held a girl captive for 18 years, a report says. Phillip Garrido is accused of snatching Jaycee Dugard in 1991, when she was 11, and fathering two children with her.
[36] Garrido was convicted in the 1970s of raping and kidnapping a California woman. In a letter to Shaw, CDCR Secretary Matthew Cates said he agreed that the state needed to improve its parole system and had plans to uprade to a risk-base system that will ensure the most dangerous predators get the closest supervision. "We regret," he wrote, "he was not caught sooner." Dugard was discovered in August, 18 years after her 1991 kidnapping. She was rescued after Garrido, 58, took two daughters he had fathered with Dugard to hand out religious material at the UC Berkley campus, tipping off two police employees there. A background checked showed that Garrido was a registered sex offender and his nearly two-decades old crime unraveled when he showed up at a meeting with his parole officer with Dugard and the two girls in tow.
[17] Dugard, now 29, surfaced in late August after Garrido aroused police suspicion while seeking to proselytize at a college campus. Garrido brought Dugard and her two daughters to a subsequent appointment with his parole officer, who discovered their identity. Among the "missed opportunities" Shaw cites in his report are the failure of parole officers to investigate "clearly visible" utility wires running from Garrido's home into the concealed back yard compound where Dugard was held. Shaw says agents also neglected to follow up after finding a 12-year-old girl, possibly one of Dugard's daughters, at the registered sex offender's home and didn't interview his neighbors or act on information showing he violated parole.
[6] "Most police agencies have a sergeant who is in the field and provides supervision. In parole we have a lieutenant who does these duties, and each one can have upwards of 800 parolees, and more than a dozen agents who they supervise. It's too large a span of control." Cate promises that they will end the strictly passive use of GPS tracking devices for sex offenders. A report on the Garrido case found that agents took no action on Garrido's GPS alerts, and that he was wrongly classified as low-risk when he initially went into the system. "Parole and the department have the responsibility to protect the public from this kind of abject evil, and we need to do so to the greatest extent possible with the resources we have," said Cate. Secretary Cate says he is committed to ensuring a case like Garrido's never happens again. The state inspector general's report also contains some details of what his alleged victim went through. The report concludes that Dugard exhibited indications of Stockholm syndrome, which is a psychological response in which some victims come to identify with their captors.
[26] "Federal parole authorities also failed to detect Garrido's criminal conduct and his victims," the report states. California Inspector-General David Shaw said the problems began when Garrido was classified as a low-risk sex offender, when his background should have resulted in his classification as a high-risk offender. "It's apparent that this initial mistake set the tone for many mistakes to come," Shaw said. Shaw's investigation found frequent gaps, some of them lasting nearly a year, between face-to-face visits by parole officers to Garrido.
[2] Agents often failed to make required home visits and conduct drug tests, and did not interview neighbors who had witnessed children and strange behavior. Parole supervisors often failed to review his case files. Overall, the state met its parole specifications for Garrido in only 12 months out of 123, failing 90% of the time, Shaw said. In recent years, as the state began to scrutinize sex offenders more closely, he was visited at home much more often. His agent had a caseload of 40 parolees, double the ratio used for high-risk sex offenders.
[29] Shaw said during the period of state parole, proper evaluations of Garrido's status were made less than 10 percent of the time -- in only 12 months out of that 132-month period. Perhaps the biggest problem was that the initial assessment of Garrido by state parole officials put him in a low-risk sex offender category, which meant significantly lighter supervision. When a parolee is listed as a high-risk sexual offender, Shaw said, he is among 20 parolees assigned to an agent. Agents are assigned 40 low-risk offenders, which means they are able to devote only about half as much time to each of those cases. Shaw said, as a low-risk parolee, agents did not pay adequate attention to parole violations recorded by the GPS system Garrido was required to wear around his ankle.
[7] The state has 2,493 parole agents, the statement said. Garrido, 58, was under federal parole supervision and required to register as a sex offender when he and his wife, Nancy Garrido, allegedly snatched Dugard outside her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991 when the girl was 11.
[1] A summary of a report into the matter prepared by the office was released Wednesday. Garrido, 58, was under federal parole supervision and required to register as a sex offender when he and his wife, Nancy Garrido, allegedly snatched Jaycee Dugard outside her South Lake Tahoe, Calif., home in 1991.
[18] "Despite numerous clues and opportunities, the department, as well as federal and local law enforcement, failed to detect Garrido's criminal conduct, resulting in the continued confinement and victimization of Jaycee and her two daughters," Inspector General David Shaw wrote in the report. Garrido and his wife Nancy, 54, are accused of snatching Dugard from a street near her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991, when she was 11 years old, and holding her for 18 years in a squalid warren of tents and sheds in their back yard.
[6] "Despite numerous clues and opportunities, the department, as well as federal and local law enforcement, failed to detect Garrido's criminal conduct, resulting in the continued confinement and victimization of Jaycee and her two daughters," the audit states. "On August 26, 2009, Garrido and his wife were finally arrested for these heinous crimes, and Jaycee was reunited with her family." Dugard was 11 and walking to school near South Lake Tahoe when Garrido and his wife allegedly abducted her in 1991, using a stun gun they carried and hiding her in his Antioch-area back yard for 18 years.
[12] 
Garrido is the man accused of abducting Jaycee Dugard, fathering two girls by her and keeping them prisoner in his back yard for something like 18 years. You might wonder: How could his parole officer possibly have missed something like that? Well, a new state report says, it's very simple: They were doing a horrible job of monitoring him. Think of that: This young woman could've been rescued years earlier if someone had been on the ball.
[37] Jaycee Lee Dugard repeatedly tried to mislead parole and police officers as they tried to unravel the relationship between her and the man accused of abducting her almost two decades earlier. An official report into the handling of the Phillip Garrido case said, as she was being interviewed alone by officers, Ms Dugard gave her name as Alyssa and told officers that she was the mother of the two other girls, Angel and Starlet. "The parole agent believed that Alyssa looked too young to be the mother and asked her age. Alyssa said that she was 29 years old, laughingly explaining that she often gets that comment and that people believe she is the girls' sister," the report said.
[38] Astonishingly, as a scathing new report has revealed, nothing was done to investigate the sighting. Instead it wasn't until this year - 18 years after she was taken - that Jaycee was finally rescued. The neighbour told probation officers that a blonde hair little girl had turned up next door and when asked what her name was said: "Jaycee." Nothing was done to find out who she was. The report into how officials supervised Garrido after he left prison ten years ago, reveals a catalogue of mistakes. The report says she told them she was from Minnesota and was hiding from an abusive husband. It says Jaycee claimed she was called Alyssa. The report says: "She explained that she was from Minnesota and had been hiding for five years from an abusive husband. "She was terrified of being found, she said, and that was the reason she could not give the parole agent any information." Garrido had told probation officers that the three girls were sisters whom he was looking after for his brother.
[22] "As they waited for the officer to arrive, Alyssa said she was sorry that she had lied. She explained that she was from Minnesota and had been hiding for five years from an abusive husband," the report recounted. "She was terrified of being found, she said, and that was the reason she could not give the parole agent any information." In the other room Mr Garrido had given another story: that the three girls were sisters whom he was looking after for his brother, from nearby Oakley. According to the AIG account, Ms Dugard maintained her story but Mr Garrido admitted under police interrogation that he was the father of the two girls.
[38] Below, Shaw publicly describes for the first time Dugard's interaction with authorities at a state parole office in Concord on Aug. 26. A UC Berkeley police officer had notified Garrido's parole agent that he had been on the campus with two young girls -- Dugard's daughters by Garrido -- and was acting strangely. From Shaw's report: As the parole agent was on the phone with the officer, he observed that Garrido was accompanied by his wife and three young girls. After completing his conversation with the officer, Garrido's parole agent wisely isolated the females -- including Garrido's wife -- to identify them.
[25] There is no indication that Jaycee ever attempted an escape, authorities say. She was reunited with her family shortly after the couple's Aug. 26 arrest and is cooperating with investigators, officials say. Alert UC Berkeley police officers notified Garrido's parole agent of his presence on campus with two shy girls the agent apparently never knew about. The following day, Garrido brought his wife, Dugard and the girls into a Concord parole office, and police questioning unearthed Dugard's identity.
[4] The report said that parole agents ignored hundreds of red flags in the Garrido case. The report also recounts when authorities first learned that the woman who used the name Alyssa was really Jaycee Dugard who was kidnapped from South Lake Tahoe when she was 11 years old. When parole agents first interviewed Dugard, she said she didn't have any identification and that she was from Minnesota and trying to hide from an abusive husband. Garrido separately told agents that Dugard and her two daughters were all sisters and their father was his brother who lived in nearby Oakley. After further grilling from the agents, Garrido finally admitted that he had kidnapped and raped Dugard and that he fathered her children. Dugard also confessed her true identity.
[39] A statement issued by Dugard's lawyer McGregor Scott said the report "clearly sets out many missed opportunities to bring a much earlier end to the nightmare of Jaycee Dugard and her family." It also said Dugard is "fully committed" to holding Garrido accountable for his alleged crimes. The report said for almost the entire first year he was in the California parole system, Garrido was not visited by a parole agent. It said he also was passed over between June 2001 and July 2002, and received only one visit between June 2004 and August 2005.
[24] State parole agents fell down on the job again and again during the 10 years they supervised sex offender Phillip Craig Garrido, failing to check out clues that could have led to alleged kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard and.
[40] A new report reveals what happened the day Phillip Garrido was first brought in for questioning, along with Jaycee and her two daughters. Garrido claimed they were his nieces, but a suspicious parole agent decided to separate them. That's when Jaycee "became defensive and agitated, wanting to know why the parole agent was interrogating them." ""She was aware that Garrido had taken the girls to UC Berkeley and that he was a sex offender who was on parole for kidnapping and raping a woman. She added that Garrido was a changed man and a great person who was good with her kids."
[41] The oldest of the three young females identified herself as Alyssa, the second oldest as Angel, and the youngest as Starlet. During further questioning, Alyssa advised that she was the girls' mother. The parole agent believed that Alyssa looked too young to be the mother and asked her age. Alyssa said that she was 29 years old, laughingly explaining that she often gets that comment and that people believe she is the girls' sister. As the parole agent continued his questioning, Alyssa and Garrido's wife became defensive and agitated, wanting to know why the parole agent was interrogating them. Alyssa said she was aware that Garrido had taken the girls to UC Berkeley and that he was a sex offender who was on parole for kidnapping and raping a woman. She added that Garrido was a changed man and a great person who was good with her kids. Alyssa subsequently stated that she didn't want to provide any additional information and that she might need a lawyer. The parole agent then directed Garrido to a room and asked him to explain the relationship of the three young girls. Garrido thought for a moment and responded that they were all sisters and that the father was his brother who lived nearby in Oakley, California. Garrido stated that the parents were divorced, the girls were living with them and other people, and he did not know his brother's address or phone number. Because of the inconsistencies in their stories, the parole agent isolated Garrido in an office with another parole agent and returned to the females. The parole agent told Alyssa that she needed to provide him with identification or with the phone number of a relative or friend whom he could call for verification of her identity.
[25] The stinging report details what Shaw characterized as serious problems at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation relating to training, supervision and activities of parole agents, and the ineffective use of satellite tracking to monitor offenders. In Garrido's case, the lapses dated to 1999, when California took over his parole supervision from federal authorities. He had been in prison for the Nevada rape until 1988. A California parole agent improperly classified Garrido, saying he needed only low-level supervision, a category in which he remained until he was arrested and one that allowed him to avoid more intensive oversight.
[29] Garrido was required to register as a sex offender because of the 1977 conviction. He was paroled in 1988, supervised by federal parole authorities. In March 1999, the U.S. Parole Administration terminated Garrido's federal parole supervision and Nevada briefly took over until June 1999, when California began his supervision. U.S. Department of Justice spokesman Charles Miller said he could not immediately comment on the report's findings or Garrido's case.
[24] Garrido had been under parole supervision because of a 1977 conviction for raping a 25-year-old woman. He was released from prison in 1988 and placed under federal supervision until 1999, when California took over, the Associated Press reported. California corrections officials said they were working to improve the monitoring of released sex offenders. "We obviously deeply regret any error that could have possibly resulted in the victims living under these conditions for even one additional day," Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary Matthew Cate said.
[36] California took over Garrido's supervision in 1999. As a parolee, Garrido wore a GPS-linked ankle bracelet that tracked his every movement, met with his parole agent several times each month and was subject to routine surprise home visits and random drug and alcohol tests, according to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
[10] The department also failed to train parole agents to conduct home visits and did not correctly classify Garrido as a sex offender.
[21] "Despite numerous clues and opportunities the department, as well as federal and local law enforcement, failed to detect Garrido's criminal conduct, resulting in the continued confinement and victimisation of Jaycee and her two daughters." The missed opportunities and clues should have raised suspicions of even untrained individuals, such as clearly visible utility wires running from Garrido's house to the backyard, and the presence of an unexplained 12-year-old girl during a home visit, in a sex offender's home that was brushed off.
[34] The file also contained a diagram and description of the size of Garrido's backyard. Such mistakes by the department resulted "in the continued confinement and victimization of Jaycee and her two daughters," Shaw said, adding, "there were missed clues and opportunities to discover their existence sooner than they did." Shaw said parole agents did not investigate visible utility lines leading to the secret compound, and said one agent did not try to confirm the identity of a young girl he saw at the house while on a visit, instead trusting Garrido's claim that she was his niece. Shaw also faulted agents for not interviewing neighbors and following up on tips about children living in the backyard, and he skewered the department for failing to take advantage of satellite tracking technology that would have shown Garrido violated the terms of his parole by breaking a nighttime curfew and traveling farther than he was allowed to go.
[8] "I don't think the system is broken, but there are a lot of improvements that can be made." In a blistering indictment of the state's Department of Corrections and federal parole officers, Shaw said officials had missed numerous opportunities to discover Dugard and her two daughters, both allegedly fathered by Garrido.
[7] Mr Shaw's report heavily criticised the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. It said: "Our review shows that Garrido committed numerous parole violations and that the department failed to properly supervise Garrido and missed numerous opportunities to discover his victims.
[21] The corrections department official who was slammed in a California state report for failing to properly supervise Jaycee Dugard's accused kidnapper said today his parole agent's workload restricted him to spending only 45 minutes a week on each of his cases.
[13] A scathing report by the California Inspector General details the failings of the state's parole system regarding the parole of Phillip Garrido, the man accused of kidnapping Jaycee Dugard in 1991.
[39] SACRAMENTO, CA - Alleged Jaycee Dugard kidnapper Phillip Garrido was supposed to have worn a GPS monitoring device every day from April 2008 until this August, when he was arrested. Records indicate his GPS signal dropped out almost every night last summer.' According to a report by the state Inspector General, when Garrido was wearing his GPS device, he routinely went places he wasn't supposed to go. None of those alerts were ever acted on, and Lance Corcoran is not at all surprised. "Those violations happen every day in California," said Corcoran.' "They are as routine as stoplights. They happen all the time."
[42] A new report from the state inspector general reveals that Jaycee Dugard, the woman who was kidnapped as a child and held in an East Bay sex-offender's backyard for eighteen years, apparently suffered from Stockholm syndrome. According to the Chron, the report states that when authorities first questioned Dugard, she defended her kidnapper, Philip Craig Garrido, calling him "a great father who was good with her kids." Stockholm syndrome refers to the phenomenon of victims who identify with their captors.
[43] The report by inspector general David Shaw also listed a catalogue of mistakes by parole officers assigned to monitor Garrido which prolonged Miss Dugard's imprisonment. Garrido is accused of kidnapping Miss Dugard in 1991, when she was 11. Three years earlier, he had been released from prison after serving only 11 years of a 50-year sentence for rape.
[44] The couple has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping, rape and imprisonment charges. Questions arose about how Garrido managed to keep Dugard hidden for so long even as he was being monitored by parole officers because of a previous rape conviction. The office has said its report would include recommendations for improving parolee supervision statewide. Police say Garrido fathered Dugard's two daughters, now 15 and 11, who were born in the ramshackle tent compound on his property where she is thought to have been held. Dugard, 29, was reunited with her family in August and is living with her daughters and mother in an undisclosed location in Northern California.
[18] As Americans, it has been deeply ingrained in us to mind our own business. It wasn't until 9/11 that we were even encouraged to be aware of our surroundings. It wasn't until Jaycee Dugard that we were actively encouraged to watch our neighbors. The police were supposedly regularly checking on Mr. Sowell, but they were not allowed to enter his house. I believe this should be changed. In the case of Phillip Garrido, who kept Jaycee Dugard captive in his back yard for 18 years, there was a parole officer who stopped by 2 or 3 times a month, supposedly at random. He even came into the house. He claims to have never seen Jaycee there, or the two daughters she bore there. (Since he came over at random, and Jaycee helped the Garridos run a printing business out of their house, I think it's miraculous that the officer never saw Jaycee, but I don't know the details about that.) I think that, considering the fact that Mr. Garrido was known to kidnap people, the officers should have been allowed to search his property from time to time.
[45] Phillip Garrido kidnapped Jaycee Dugard and went virtually unnoticed while parole officers and police checked on him regularly.
[46] Dugard's kidnappers, Phillip Garrido, a convicted sex offender on parole and his wife Nancy Garrido, were able to evade authorities and pass visits by parole officers for nearly two decades, while Dugard and the two children fathered by her kidnapper, remained hidden in a squalid backyard compound.
[34] Anthony Sowell raped and murdered at least 11 women while meeting the requirements of a registered sex offender. Both men were convicted rapists, both men committed heinous crimes after their release, and both men went virtually unnoticed. Phillip Garrido lived with Jaycee Dugard and the two children he fathered with her under the authoritative radar that should have detected his crime. Even when neighbors called 911 to report that young girls were living in his backyard in tents, authorities failed. They did not respond, did not search, and did not get involved.
[46] Miss Dugard, who called herself "Alyssa", told interviewers she was aware Garrido was a convicted sex offender but that he was a "changed man". Only after Garrido admitted he had kidnapped and raped her did she identify herself as Jaycee Dugard, the report said. Since her release and being reunited with her family Miss Dugard has indicated she will testify against Garrido and his wife Nancy who are charged with her abduction and rape. McGregor Scott, a lawyer hired by her family, said: "Miss Dugard is fully committed to working with law enforcement to ensure Mr Garrido is held accountable for his crimes."
[44] "Police officers subsequently arrested Phillip and Nancy Garrido on numerous felony charges." Ms Dugard has now been reunited with her parents. The report revealed that Ms Dugard had known he was a convicted sex offender but told officers this summer that he was a "changed man and a great person who was good with her kids".
[38] There are more than 700 registered sex offenders in Clark County and each is watched over by a Parole and Probation officer. They say recent cases, like that of Phillip Garrido, accused of kidnapping Dugard, is a call to action for them to make sure it does not happen in Las Vegas.
[47] Parole officials supervising Dugard's alleged captor, Phillip Garrido, missed many opportunities to find her, Inspector General David R. Shaw says in a report.
[29] The inspector general found that parole agents originally failed to classify Garrido, convicted of a brutal rape in the 1970s, as a high-risk parolee, missed opportunities to discover Ms. Dugard and her two children, and didn't act to investigate numerous possible parole violations.
[23] Shaw's investigation found that parole agents had failed to follow up on the presence of a 12-year-old girl, possibly one of Dugard's daughters, seen at Garrido's home when an agent visited in June 2008. Garrido said she was his brother's daughter, and no one with the parole agency checked his story.
[40] Shaw's report noted that Garrido's parole file included information about a 1972 drugging and rape of a minor in which charges were dropped. "This arrest in Garrido's past should have spurred the parole agent to further investigate Garrido's story," the report found. "We easily contacted Garrido's brother and determined that he did not have a daughter." The audit also faulted agents for failing to talk to police or Garrido's neighbors, who knew him as "Creepy Phil," one of whom had reported to the Contra Costa County sheriff's office in 2006 that he was keeping young girls in the backyard.
[40] El Dorado County Dist. Atty. Vern Pierson, from whose area Dugard was kidnapped, praised the report and lamented that California's budget woes could lead to "further reduction in funding which is necessary to ensure the incarceration of dangerous criminals and their supervision." In August, Garrido and his wife, Nancy, were arrested and Dugard was reunited with her family. In his report, Shaw revealed, without explanation, that she tried to protect her kidnapper when initially questioned Aug. 26 by a parole agent and police. She told them her name was Alyssa, and pretended that she was on the run from an abusive husband in Minnesota.
[29] The report questioned why parole agents did not check the backyard compound where Dugard and her two daughters were being held. Garrido had been required to wear a GPS device on his ankle.
[39] Dugard was questioned at a state parole office in Concord last August, one day after Garrido and Dugard's daughters first came to the attention of Cal police officers whose suspicions eventually brought down the whole case. According to the report, Dugard angrily asked why she was being questioned and identified herself as "Alyssa." It says Dugard grew agitated under questioning, and that she said that while she knew about Garrido's earlier crimes, she described him as a changed man who was good with her kids.
[26] The California report is limited to reviewing the actions of state parole officers, who were in charge of monitoring Garrido from June 1999 until Dugard and her children were discovered in August. It added, Garrido was under the jurisdiction of federal parole officers when authorities say he kidnapped
Dugard in 1991.
[2] The investigative report also faults state parole officers for repeatedly failing to monitor Garrido properly and for failing to discover Dugard and her children - whom authorities believe are also Garrido's kids.
[43] Garrido was under state control for 10 years as a convicted rapist and under federal parole supervision for eight years. Authorities say he hid Dugard in the backyard of his Antioch home after kidnapping her outside her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991, when she was 11, and then fathered two daughters by her.
[48] Convicted in the 1976 kidnapping and rape of a South Lake Tahoe woman, Garrido spent more than a decade in federal prison. He was under federal parole supervision in the decade following his release in 1988 -- the period when Dugard was abducted at age 11, taken to Antioch and gave birth to the two daughters authorities say Garrido fathered.
[4] I would certainly agree. The fact that a couple could hold a 29 year old, and 15 year old and an 11 year old hostage in their backyard without anyone knowing is unfathomable. Garrido was convicted in 1977 for the kidnapping and rape of a 25-year-old woman and was under federal parole supervision when he allegedly kidnapped Dugard in 1991.
[16] The suspect "was only properly supervised 12 out of 123 months that we supervised him, a failure rate of about 90 percent," Shaw told reporters. In all, parole officers visited Garrido at least 60 times during the 10 years he was under California supervision. In one 2008 case, a parole officer encountered a 12-year-old girl on the property, "but failed to identify her or her relationship to Garrido," Shaw said.
[2] A series of parole violations should have led to the abduction, and saw the criminal brought to justice, but as the parole officers failed to follow up the violations, the crime went un-noticed. Dugard, now 29, who has two children by Garrido during her time in the '''squalid warren of tents and sheds in their back yard,''' was discovered in August when Garrido was being suspicious near the campus of university of California.
[35] Parole officers failed to interview Garrido's neighbours in Antioch, California or to investigate utility wires running to a secret backyard compound where Miss Dugard, and the two daughters Garrido fathered by her, are believed to have lived. Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response in which kidnap victims begin to show sympathy for their abductors. It was named after a robbery in Sweden in which hostages became emotionally attached to their captors.
[44] During that time, Garrido was on parole and was supposed to be subject to tight monitoring by authorities. As a parolee, he wore a GPS-linked ankle bracelet that tracked his every move, met with his parole officer several times each month and was subject to routine, surprise home visits and random drug and alcohol tests. The back yard encampment where he allegedly kept Miss Dugard went unnoticed by authorities for nearly two decades.
[21] In a press briefing in the Capitol Wednesday, the inspector general presented a chart showing that between June 1999 and July, parole officers completed 60 visits to the Garrido home. Corrections officials have said that, typically, an offender such as Garrido would be subjected to three to four home visits monthly.
[12] In California, the inspector general recommends that all sex offenders be placed on active GPS monitoring and that agents should more fully utilize the GPS technology. For its part, the California department of corrections said that it will "ensure that parole agents periodically review all GPS tracks. and will continue to strive to exceed local and national GPS standards."
[23] In Garrido's case, GPS monitoring appeared to be largely a formality ''' a finding that led the inspector general to conclude that "the current passive GPS monitoring program appears to provide little, if any, value to proactive parole supervision." The use of GPS to track sex offenders ''' theoretically to prevent them from committing other crimes ''' has been questioned before.
[23] Most of the report focuses on Garrido's interaction with parole officers, but it also raises concerns about the use of GPS to monitor sex offenders.
[23] Anthony Sowell was released in 2005 and met all of the requirements of a registered sex offender in Cleveland, Ohio. Apparently, police have no authority to investigate the home of a registered sex offender when the smell of decaying flesh permeates into the neighborhood, reports of naked women falling from second story windows are made to the police, and one victim states that she was taken into his home, strangled, and raped. Thirty-nine days transpired from the escapee victim's report to the time police arrived at Sowell's home to check up on him. They had been there the day of the alleged rape as well, just several hours prior. Apparently, these parole officers and police cannot detect the smell of human decaying flesh. Police say they did not have the authority to search Anthony Sowell's home.
[46] The inquiry aimed at determining how Garrido, who was being monitored by parole officers for a previous rape conviction, managed to keep Dugard hidden for so long. Garrido, 58, allegedly snatched Dugard near her home in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., in 1991, held her captive'' and fathered two children by her.
[49] Ms. Dugard was discovered in August after parole officers were tipped off by campus police from the University of California, Berkeley who became suspicious after an encounter with Garrido.
[23] A catalogue of mistakes allowed Garrido, a convicted rapist, to remain free for years, said the report by California's Inspector General David Shaw. Garrido is accused of kidnapping
Miss Dugard in 1991, when she was 11.
[21] California Inspector General David Shaw found that out of 123 months, Garrido was properly supervised during only 12. There were extensive periods -- some as long as a year -- during which an agent never visited the home, his report says.
[19] Garrido, a man with a violent history of rape and kidnapping, had been classed as a low level offender. Authorities now say he should have been classified as a highly dangerous predator. California Inspector General David Shaw said the review found that Garrido was properly supervised for 12 out of 123 months he was under California's jurisdiction.
[22] The Office of the Inspector General found that during the 10 years the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation supervised parolee Phillip Craig Garrido, the department: Failed to adequately classify and supervise Garrido.
[40] The report also says the department failed to refer Garrido for a mental health assessment. The California Inspector General's Office released a summary of the report Wednesday on its Web site.
[33] "The inspector general's report clearly sets out many missed opportunities to bring a much earlier end to the nightmares of Jaycee Dugard and her family," a family spokesperson, who asked not to be identified, told ABCNews.com today, reading from a statement. "We expect that the appropriate authorities will take the necessary action to ensure this never happens again. Jaycee is fully committed to holding Mr. Garrido accountable for the crimes he has committed."
[13] "The inspector general's report clearly sets out many missed opportunities to bring a much earlier end to the nightmares of Jaycee. "We expect that the appropriate authorities will take the necessary action to ensure this never happens again." Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
[34] Jaycee Lee Dugard showed signs of Stockholm syndrome when she was found after 18 years in captivity, according to an official report by California's inspector general.
[44] I suppose the first reaction one would have is wow, just wow. Second: It's too late for Jaycee Dugard to worry about what went wrong and even to do a report that says "here's where we dropped the ball." Third: Obviously, corrective measures will be taken but for taxpayers who pay the salaries of of these civil servants in the state of California, what disciplinary measures will be taken against the parole agents who blew it? Was that not a big reason for the study, and if it wasn't, why not? In California, state workers can put in their time and retire at age 50-55 and the collect a pension for the rest of their lives, sometimes at 90 percent of their salary --at taxpayer expense-- while going out and getting another job if they choose.
[28] Recommendations in the report included more training for officers on how to to look for clues. She walked into a California police department in August and told them who she was. The
Jaycee Dugard kidnapping is similar to the
Elizabeth Smart kidnapping in that
both were held hostage for an extended period of time and found alive. Elizabeth Smart testified against her kidnapper Brian David Mitchell on October 1, 2009. Smart testified that she was
raped 3 or 4 times a day, and tied to a pole by Mitchell and his wife.
[5] The office planned an afternoon news conference to release the full report. The inquiry was launched after Garrido and his wife were arrested for allegedly kidnapping Jaycee Dugard and holding her captive in his backyard.
[33] "Eventually, Garrido admitted to kidnapping and raping Alyssa," the report said. "During further questioning, Alyssa identified herself as Jaycee Dugard and confirmed that she had been kidnapped and raped by Garrido.
[38] Garrido should have been in the eyes of law enforcement within days of his kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard. Here's why: had law enforcement used two terms to search their data base, Garrido would have immediately been flagged. Those words are'snatched' and 'abducted'. He had done both of those things in the 1970s, and was imprisoned in federal prison because that crime was committed in both California and Nevada. He'snatched' Jaycee right off the street where he committed the same type crime around 1978. This is as major a failure of law enforcement as was the SEC's failure to catch Bernie Madoff for almost as many years.
[30] Phillip Garrido is accused of kidnapping Jaycee Dugard and holding her captive for 18 years.
[2] Jaycee, kidnapped when she was 11 in her northern California town, called herself Alyssa and presented herself as Phillip Garrido's wife. She laughingly explained that she was often mistaken as someone young enough to be the sister of her daughters, fathered by Garrido. She became angry under repeated questioning and insisted Garrido was a "great person" and "good" father, despite his previous arrests for rape and kidnapping. She then switched her story, first explaining that she was an abused wife on the run, then finally admitting her real identity as the girl missing for 18 years.
[50] Phillip Garrido was released from prison, after serving only 11 years of a 50-year sentence for rape. Soon after, he abducted Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991, when she was 11-years-old.
[34] SACRAMENTO - When Jaycee Lee Dugard resurfaced in August, she denied being the 11-year-old kidnapped in 1991 and defended Phillip Garrido as a "great person." She became defensive as officers questioned her, then asked for a lawyer. She tried to convince police she was fleeing an abusive husband. Then the woman who had tried to pass herself off as "Alyssa" told police the truth, ending the 18-year mystery of her disappearance.
[27] Far from being relieved when her alleged kidnapper, Phillip Craig Garrido, was on the verge of arrest, Jaycee Dugard told authorities he was "a changed man" who was "good with her kids" and angrily asked why she was.
[9] Authorities say Garrido, who was on parole at the time after serving 10 years in prison for a 1976 rape, fathered Dugard's two daughters during that time.
[6] The report into the case says Garrido, who was on parole for rape, was wrongly classified as low-risk and inadequately supervised. It says, many chances of discovering Ms Dugard were missed. Ms Dugard was found in ramshackle huts hidden behind the house where Garrido lived with his wife, Nancy.
[36] When Garrido's parole agent and a partner initially took Garrido to their office for questioning, he told them that two girls with whom he'd been seen, later found to be Du-gard's children, were the daughters of a relative. In Garrido's file was a notation that he should not be in the presence of minors, but that was a new restriction from July, and the agents decided it didn't apply to Garrido because he had no convictions with minors. They told him to return the next day, the report found.
[27] Shaw said a parole agent also failed to adequately investigate the relationship between Garrido and a young girl seen by the agent during a home visit. As a parolee, Garrido wore a GPS-linked ankle bracelet that tracked his movements.
[24] The report finds, Garrido was barely supervised for several years, and agents often failed to even make the required home visits. Even when they did start visiting more often, officers failed to follow up on claims that girls were seen in his house.
[28] What's more, parole agents ignored 276 reports of a loss of signal from Garrido's monitoring system, according to the report. "Parole agents should have investigated the cause of this abnormality and documented their findings in the parole file," the report says. Parole agents failed to act when GPS showed Garrido made regular trips that took him more than 25 miles from his home in violation of his parole.
[23] Failed to properly supervise parole agents responsible for Garrido. Ignored other opportunities to determine that Garrido was violating the terms of his parole.
[20] Garrido, who had at least six different parole agents over a decade, was barely supervised for several years after the state began monitoring him, Shaw said.
[29] "But there are a lot of improvements that can be made." Among other recommendations, Shaw said, the corrections department should train its parole agents in "conducting a parolee home inspection, including search techniques on how to be aware of clues to potential parole violations or other criminal behavior." No such training is provided now, agents told state investigators. Cate said the corrections department would step up its monitoring efforts. He also pointed to other recent changes, including giving smaller caseloads to parole agents and pairing new agents with experienced ones.
[40] Shaw said the tracking systems give the public a false sense of security. He faulted the state for using a "passive" tracking system under which an offender's whereabouts are reviewed only rarely, and only if an alarm indicates that they have gone somewhere that is not permitted. He also said parole agents are not properly instructed in how to use them.
[29] The report revealed a litany of mistakes and inaction by the six state parole agents who supervised Garrido from June 1999 to through August.
[19] The report also noted that Garrido was paid 60 visits by parole agents in a 10-year period.
[13] ANTIOCH, CA - In the wake of a' report admonishing the state Department of Corrections for lapses in its parole oversight of alleged kidnapper and rapist Phillip Garrido, there was a mixed reaction Wednesday from the people who lived on Garrido's usually quiet street in Contra Costa County.
[11] Report blasts probation officials' supervision of Phillip Garrido. "Mistakes were made by the department and by this agent," Matthew Cate, secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, told "Good Morning America" today.
[13] Corcoran believes Garrido's case shows that the GPS program for parolees isn't running the way it should. "It's worthless," said Corcoran. "It's worthless for the amount of expenses we're putting into it." Corcoran also says his agents are actively pressured by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to not report technical violations by their parolees, such as GPS violations. He says there are simply too many people on GPS for agents to worry about each violation that every one makes. News10 made several calls to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation'to response, but those calls were not returned before deadline.
[42] As of June, about 7,000 California sex offenders were being tracked on GPS, according the inspector's report. Of those, 2,200 are classified as active (high-risk parolees whose movements received the most scrutiny) and 4,800 are passive (those who receive much less scrutiny). Despite his violent past, Garrido was placed in April 2008 on the department's passive GPS monitoring program so his movements were not as closely monitored as high-risk parolees.
[23] A background checked showed that Garrido was a registered sex offender and didn't have any daughters. A search of his home found Jayce who had been living in the back garden for 18 years.
[22] Miss Dugard, now 29, was found alive in August after being imprisoned for 18 years in a secret backyard compound at Garrido's home in Antioch, near San Francisco.
[21] The pair have pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping and rape. The girl had been snatched outside her home in the California town of South Lake Tahoe in 1991, and found in August at Garrido's home near Antioch. He had been released from prison in 1988 after serving 11 years of a 50-year sentence for rape.
[36] Phillip Garrido served 10 years in prison for the 1976 rape of another South Lake Tahoe woman. He was arrested in 1972 for drugging and raping a 14-year-old girl but was never prosecuted because she refused to testify in court.
[6] In a statement Wednesday afternoon, it added, "A more critical question which has not yet been addressed is why a dangerous sexual predator like Phillip Garrido was released after serving only 11 years of a 50-year federal sentence and a five-to-life Nevada state sentence."
[2] Garrido was under federal parole for a decade, then under state parole for the past 10 years.
[7] Shaw faulted the California department for not reviewing copies of Garrido's federal parole file that included information about a search a federal agent did of Garrido's backyard, including the secret tented area and a soundproof studio there.
[24] Shaw's report noted that four years earlier, firefighters responded to a call about a child with a shoulder injury at a swimming pool at the home - the pool was in the backyard compound. No parole agent explored this incident.
[40] Being suspicious about the identities provided, the parole agent called the Concord Police Department and requested an officer respond to assist in the questioning. As they waited for the officer to arrive, Alyssa said she was sorry that she had lied. She explained that she was from Minnesota and had been hiding for five years from an abusive husband. She was terrified of being found, she said, and that was the reason she could not give the parole agent any information.
[25] "The Stockholm Syndrome can take effect in as little as three or four days," explains Atwal. Dr. Atwal says Jaycee only feared her captor, but likely developed sympathetic feelings for him as a coping mechanism, causing her to cover up the crime instead of crying out for help. "She was from Minnesota and had been hiding for five years from an abusive husband. She was terrified of being found, she said, and that was the reason she could not give the parole agent any information."
[41] Garrido showed up with wife Nancy, "Alyssa" and the two girls. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, "Alyssa" laughed off a parole agent's comment that she looked too young to have children that old.
[27] When first interviewed by parole officers who were suspicious of her alleged abductor Phillip Garrido she did not reveal her identity. She told investigators she was a battered wife from Minnesota who was hiding from her abusive husband, and described Garrido as a "great person" who was "good with her kids".
[44] The kidnap victim identified herself as 'Alyssa' and tried to protect her alleged abductor, Phillip Garrido, when they were interviewed at the Concord, Calif., parole office Aug. 26, a report says.
[25] Failure to act on information clearly showing Garrido had violated parole terms. The report stated that
Garrido never received a formal violation, but did commit several violations that he should have been cited for. In 2006, the police received a call from Garrido's neighbor stated that he had people living in the backyard. An officer was sent out, spoke to
Garrido in the front yard, he determined that everything was ok and he left. Sheriff Warren Rupf stated in August at a press conference: "He did not enter or request to enter the backyard. This is not an acceptable outcome. Organizationally, we should have been more inquisitive, more curious and turned over a rock or two," he said.
[5] From 1999 until he was finally arrested in August, Garrido, 58, was supposed to be subject to regular visits and other checks by the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Parole authorities have always insisted they had no evidence Garrido ever violated the conditions placed on him by Nevada, where he was convicted of kidnapping and raping a woman in 1976.
[40] Failed to refer Garrido for mental health assessment. Missed opportunities to discover the existence of Garrido'''s three victims, including: Failing to investigate clearly visible utility wires running from Garrido'''s house towards the concealed compound; Failing to investigate the presence of a 12-year old female during a home visit; Failing to talk to neighbors or local public safety agencies; Failing to act on information clearly showing Garrido had violated his parole terms.
[20] The missed opportunities included failing to investigate clearly visible utility wires running from Garrido's house towards the concealed compound in the back yard. They presence of a 12-year-old girl during a home visit was also not followed up, and authorities did not talk to Garrido's neighbours.
[21] Garrido and his wife, Nancy, remain held without bail in Placerville, charged with 29 felony counts in Jaycee's abduction and a series of alleged rapes throughout her childhood. Authorities say the couple snatched Jaycee from the street outside her South Lake Tahoe home on June 10, 1991, and spirited her directly to the house on Walnut Avenue to live in a carefully hidden backyard warren of tents, sheds and outbuildings.
[4] Cate admitted today that if it hadn't been for the UC Berkeley employees, it is "very possible" that Dugard and her daughters would still be in the Garridos' backyard. Dugard initially protected Garrido when confronted by authorities the day she was rescued, telling them that he was a good man and that she was from Minnesota, hiding from an abusive husband, according to the report.
[13] Dugard was freed in August after a police officer at the University of California, Berkeley, became suspicious after spotting Garrido on the campus with Dugard's two daughters.
[3] The Garridos have pleaded not guilty to 29 counts related to Dugard's abduction, rape and imprisonment. Dugard, 29, was reunited with her family in August, and is living with her daughters and mother in an undisclosed location in Northern California.
[10] Investigators now say Jaycee Lee Dugard tried to protect Phillip Garrido, but one detective knew something was very wrong. Forensic psychologist Baljit Atwal says it's no surprise Jaycee Lee Dugard tried to protect her alleged captor when he was caught. "Because she's scared; the only protection she knows is to do what this guy tells her to do," Atwal explains.
[41] The call to the probation service was made within weeks of Jaycee being snatched off the streets by Phillip Garrido.
[22] Phillip Garrido and Anthony Sowell are symptomatic of a growing trend in violent predators permeating across the nation. Unfortunately, they are also evidence of another trend: failure of authorities to adequately monitor and follow up on sex offenders.
[46] A system put in place to keep people safe has recently failed twice. A registered sex offender convicted in Nevada allegedly went on to kidnap Jaycee Dugard and hold her hostage for 18 years.
[47] The life of a woman abducted as a child went unnoticed by officers for years. The registered sex offender who held her captive went unchecked 90-percent of the time. It's a mistake Parole and Probation officers in Clark County work hard to prevent.
[47] "If you just do what you are suppose to do, everything goes pretty smoothly. They kind of keep a tight chain on you, which I do not blame them because they have a lot of people to watch after," he said. Parole and Probation officers who work with registered sex offenders are kept to just 50 cases or less so they have time to make multiple visits and keep a closer eye on those who could reoffend.
[47] Yep, those parole officers screwed up royally! Makes you wonder what other parolees are up to right now. It's not surprising that any state employee would even work hard even in supervising sex offenders. Any government, county or state employees, I cannot call them workers are generally lazy with no initiative. I've known employees who fish during the day while they should be working and supervising.
[37] In some states, according to the Associated Press, the ratio of sex offenders to probation officers is one hundred to one. It varies from place to place. In Florida there are 40 sex offenders for every parole officer, in Colorado it's 26 to one.
[15] Each sex offender parole officer is assignment 40 cases, unless the sex offenders have been determined to be "sexually violent" and then that number drops to 20 to 1.
[5] "I cannot change the course of events. We are beating ourselves up over this and will continue to do so." Over the past 10 years, Garrido had 5 or 6 different parole officers assigned to him.
[5] A NEIGHBOUR of Jaycee Dugard's kidnapper reported to parole officers in 1991 that they had seen a blonde hair girl of that name in his garden.
[22] All the failures are with law enforcement. ALL. And it starts with the ease with which Garrido could have been identified within days of his abduction of Jaycee Dugard. He was recently released from prison, he was in the same town, his modus operandi was exactly the same - snatched someone from the street. The sheriff and FBI share major responsibility for this abject failure.
[50] "Despite numerous clues and opportunities, the department, as well as federal and local law enforcement, failed to detect Garrido's criminal conduct, resulting in the continued confinement and victimization of Jaycee and her two daughters," the summary reported. Shaw recommended making better use of the GPS monitoring system, which the summary described as a "passive program that falls short of its potential."
[7] Failed to use GPS information. Gives the public a false sense of security with a passive GPS monitoring program that falls short of its potential, raising OIG's concerns about the department's current and future uses of GPS monitoring. Ignored other opportunities to determine that Garrido was violating the terms of his parole.
[49] An executive summary of Shaw's report said Garrido "committed numerous parole violations." [7] The account of how police discovered Aug. 26 that Dugard was alive is contained in a report released Wednesday by state Inspector General David Shaw.
[27] "There were missed clues and opportunities to discover her existence," Inspector General David Shaw said at a news conference in Sacramento.
[20] "Put another way, 90 percent of the time the department's oversight of Garrido lacked required actions," the inspector general said.
[24] Cate said the state is going to intensify satellite supervision. Garrido's tracking system, had it been reviewed, could have revealed that he spent time in the hidden compound. Agents often ignored alarms that showed he had traveled beyond a permitted 25-mile radius of his home, or broken a nighttime curfew. State officials did not investigate why the signal from his tracking system often went out, including for nine or more hours almost every night for one month last summer.
[29] Measures approved by lawmakers and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, which take effect in January, will allow the state to reduce supervision on lower-risk parolees. The state could then give smaller caseloads to agents supervising more serious offenders, such as Garrido.
[29] Shaw recommended that corrections officials require active GPS monitoring of all sex offenders, so that agents get near real-time updates on the whereabouts of the parolees.
[24] In 2006, Californians voted to monitor all felony sex offenders through a GPS device. The state's department of correction took the ballot initiative a step farther by attaching GPS units to even those sex offenders convicted prior to the 2006 measure.
[23] In Idaho, with 1,251 sex offenders in the community statewide? The idaho Department of Correction says the ratio is about 50 to 60 sex offenders for each officer and authorities say effective supervision is maintained.
[15] When there is probable cause an officer may search a home. Especially if the suspect is a registered sex offender, especially if his home reeks of decaying flesh, especially when reports of naked women falling out of windows surface, and most definitely when a woman claims that a convicted rapist, sexual offender has raped her.
[46] We check the inside of the residence," said P&P Sgt. Michele Jackson. Officers say they leave no area inside a sex offender's home unchecked, looking not just for hidden victims but for anything offenders are not allowed to have. "The purpose is to go out to the home unexpectedly to catch them doing what they do on a daily basis, whether that is good or bad. We want to find out how they normally live life," said Sgt. Jackson.
[47] The total parole population in California is 109,982, with sex offenders numbering 6,782.
[1] San Francisco - In California, a Global Position System (GPS) device is strapped to every registered sex offender on parole.
[23] The inspector-general's report recommends steps to tighten supervision of paroled sex offenders, including improved risk assessments and increased use of global positioning systems to keep tabs on parolees.
[2] Shaw, who was appointed by Schwarzenegger, also harshly criticized the satellite tracking, known as the Global Positioning System, that has been embraced by state prison officials and the governor as a tool for monitoring sex offenders, often with ankle bracelets.
[29] "GPS monitoring ''' embraced as a simple technological solution for tracking the whereabouts of convicted sex offenders ''' is proving to be something less than a silver bullet for state and local public safety agencies," wrote Jim McKay in a February article in Government Technology. "Though public safety officials typically agree that GPS is a valuable tool, they say it's not a replacement for personal contact with the subject, his co-workers, family and friends that keeps the offender honest."
[23] The issue was also raised recently in Vancouver, Wash., after a convicted sex offender wearing GPS allegedly killed a
13-year-old girl.
[23] Despite there being obvious clues that something was amiss in Garrido's house no investigation was carried out into what was going on. In 2008, a parole office found a young girl in his house -- a direct violation of his parole -- but did nothing.
[22] Failure to act on information clearly showing Garrido had violated parole terms. The CDCR took charge of Garrido's supervision in 1999 after he was released from federal supervision.
[17] Garrido was paroled in August 1988 after serving 11 years of a federal kidnapping sentence, along with a 5-year term on Nevada state rape charges.
[2] Phillip and Nancy Garrido are being held in jail after pleading not guilty to a 29-count indictment that includes charges of kidnapping and rape.
[7] Phillip Garrido had been convicted in 1977 for kidnapping and raping a 25-year-old woman.
[10] Anthony Sowell and Phillip Garrido under police radar yet undetected This Nov. 1, 2009 file photo provided by the Cleveland Police Department shows.
[46] While Mr Garrido was being questioned in another room, "Alyssa" initially refused to cooperate with the agent questioning her, who then called the local police department.
[38] Out of 123 months that California was supervising Garrido, agents failed to follow protocol 90 percent of the time.
[28] As a California parolee, Garrido wore a GPS ankle bracelet and was subject to surprise home visits.
[16] Garrido and his wife, Nancy Garrido, have pleaded not guilty to 29 counts related to Dugard's disappearance. Their next court appearance is Dec. 11. Associated Press Writers Lisa Leff and Jason Dearen in San Francisco also contributed to this report.
[8] Dugard, now 29, was last seen in 1991. Investigators say Garrido fathered two children, now 11 and 15, with the girl during her captivity. He and his wife, Nancy, are charged with 29 felony counts in the case and have pleaded not guilty.
[2] Garrido and his wife, Nancy, have pleaded not guilty to 29 counts related to 1991 Dugard's abduction, rape and imprisonment.
[24] Garrido and his wife, Nancy, have been charged on 28 counts, including rape and kidnapping. They have pleaded not guilty.
[13] The Garridos have pleaded not guilty to 29 criminal counts that include kidnapping for sexual purposes, forcible lewd acts and rape.
[6] I think we all failed jaycee. If more of garrido's associates/neighbors knew about his offender status, would the sheriff have rec'd more complaints and could she have been found sooner.
[37] Jaycee was rescued in August. She was saved after Garrido, 58, took their two daughters to hand out religious material at a university. Two sharp-eyed policewomen decided there was something odd about him.
[22] Dugard has not spoken publicly since being rescued. In a statement she gave to People magazine last month, she said she was happy to be back with her family and that "nothing is more important than the unconditional love and support I have from them." She is living at an undisclosed location with her mother and daughters. McGregor Scott, an attorney hired by Dugard's family, issued a statement on her behalf Wednesday saying, "Ms. Dugard is fully committed to working with law enforcement to ensure Mr. Garrido is held accountable for his crimes."
[9] Police say Garrido fathered Dugard's two daughters, now 15 and 11, who were born in the ramshackle tent compound.
[10] The backyard encampment where Garrido allegedly hid and raped Dugard went unnoticed by authorities.
[10] Despite that and utility lines that had been strung into the backyard, agents never checked that part of Garrido's property.
[39] The corrections department issued a written response saying it agreed to improve the parole system and cited legislation that will become effective next year intended to reduce caseloads among agents. [1] "Ultimately, that is an issue to be addressed by federal and state legislatures who determine the criteria for parole board reviews and who set funding levels for corrections facilities," the prosecutor's office said. "Unfortunately, California's current financial crisis and the pending prisoner health care litigation may lead to further reduction in funding which is necessary to ensure the incarceration of dangerous criminals and their supervision upon release."
[2] Cate said the state had made improvements on the "antiquated" parole system that was in place in 1999, and said changes were on the way to focus parole supervision on high-risk offenders.
[29] Garrido abducted and assaulted Katie Calloway Hall in 1976, but was released on parole in 1988. [30] The report offers some of the most detailed information released to date on events leading up to Mr. Garrido's arrest and is filled with any number of disturbing elements.
[23] Missed opportunities to discover the existence of Garrido's three victims. Chronicle staff writer Marisa Lagos contributed to this report.
[40] A map provided in the report clearly shows dots in the compound where Garrido apparently spent a great deal of time.
[39] The report said agents ignored alerts about violations. A review of the GPS information found that over a 32-day period from July 23, 2009, to August 23, 2009, he traveled outside of the 25-mile zone seven times.
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[18] Katie Callaway Hall was kidnapped and raped by Phillip Garrido 33 years ago. [17] Phillip Garrido, right, and his wife, Nancy, second from left, are seen with their attorney's Gilbert Maines, left, and Susan Gellman, during a brief court appearance at the El Dorado Superior Court in Placerville, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009.
[8] ''The two-month probe was launched after Garrido and his wife were arrested for allegedly kidnapping''Dugard'' at the age of 11 and holding her captive in their backyard.
[49] Three years ago, a Contra Costa deputy responded to that call, but treated it as a code violation issue and didn't investigate the Garrido home or yard.
[11] Garrido was paroled from Federal Prison in 1988, by Reagan appointees the same year Bush ran Willie Horton ads.
[48] Mr Shaw said: "We determined that Garrido was only properly supervised 12 out of 123 months, a failure rate of 90 per cent."
[44] Parole supervisors also failed to detect and address the inadequate oversight, the report said. [24] The report spoke of "systemic problems" in the parole system, and called for better use of GPS monitoring for parolees.
[36] Corcoran represents the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, which includes parole officers.
[42] Unfortunately that is the only way to keep a repeat offender from becoming a repeat offender again. I am not talking about the 17 year old that flashed his friends at the high school prom and is sadly now a registered sex offender, but the ones who maliciously attach young victims and keep them hostage for their sexual pleasure. Some people argue that these crimes are not as bad as murder, but when a young child is kidnapped and sexually abused it is likely that they will never be the same. Even once they are free from their captor, it is likely that they wish they were dead, or could become an offender themselves. These crimes hold horrible long-term effects, but somehow these offenders are allowed to continue on with their lives, taking new victims under the not-so-watchful eye of the system.
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