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Report: GPS parole monitoring of Phillip Garrido failed

South Lake Tahoe : CA : USA | about 1 month ago  
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  • Yellow police tape is stretched across the front of the home of alleged kidnapper Phillip Garrido
    Yellow police tape is stretched across the front of the home of ...
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In California, a Global Position System (GPS) device is strapped to every registered sex offender on parole. The system is supposed to keep the public safe – and make it easier for parole agents to track dangerous felons. But that system is broken, and giving the public "a false sense of security,"...
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  • News Source: People.com | about 1 month ago
    The 45-page report by California's Inspector General also details how authorities failed earlier opportunities to arrest Phillip and Nancy Garrido for the 1991 abduction of Dugard, and to remove from the Garridos' house Dugard and the two daughters...
  • News Source: Christian Science Monitor | about 1 month ago
    In California, a Global Position System (GPS) device is strapped to every registered sex offender on parole. The system is supposed to keep the public safe – and make it easier for parole agents to track dangerous felons. But that system is broken,...
  • News Source: Contra Costa Times | about 1 month ago
    Ultimately it was Garrido, questioned separately, who admitted he had raped and kidnapped Dugard and that he was the girls' father. Only later did the woman who went by "Alyssa" reveal herself, according to a report this week by the state Inspector...
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  • Blog Source: www.surchur.com
    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. ...
  • Blog Source: lawprofessors.typepad.com
    Ms. Dugard was 11 when she was kidnapped in 1991. The report says that Mr. Garrido “committed numerous parole violations and that the department failed to properly supervise Garrido and missed numerous opportunities to discover his victims. ” ...
  • Blog Source: www.contracostatimes.com
    They might have found Jaycee Dugard and her two girls back behind that fence, perhaps in the soundproofed shed that federal agents knew about, the one Garrido called his recording studio. But state agents never saw the file. ... sentence and was
  • Blog Source: www.sfexaminer.com
    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. ... Nancy
  • Blog Source: prisonmovement.wordpress.com
    California parole agents did not realize Garrido's property extended beyond the fence into a large hidden compound where he allegedly kept Dugard because they had not read his federal file, which included a diagram of the entire property, ... From
  • Blog Source: barkgrowlbite.blogspot.com
    A report from the state Office of the Inspector General says the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation failed to "adequately classify and supervise" kidnapping suspect Phillip Garrido. ... Garrido and his wife, Nancy Garrido, have
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