David Shaw, the Inspector General, was interviewed on KCRA (Channel 3 Sacramento) today. The interview was long by TV standards.
These are the highlights.
Garrido was misclassified from the get-go, and nobody reviewed it or caught it for years and years. His classification was just in the process of being reviewed when this whole mess hit the fan.
The federal parole file had an excellent layout of the Garrido property. It showed the property BEFORE the fence and additional outbuildings were added. It appears that no CDCr people ever bothered to look at it.
There was semi-permanent mickey-mouse wiring going to the back of the property which was clearly visible but nobody bothered to check where it was going or why.
GPS information indicated Garrido was spending a LOT of time in his back yard for no obvious reason. Nobody ever bothered to check it out. (I admit I am surprised that the GPS tracking is that detailed. So much so I am just a tad suspicious of the way it is being presented.)
There is at least one parole note indicating a 12-year old girl in the house during a parole visit. That detail was never followed up on.
Nobody ever talked to the neighbors about Garrido. They were aware that there were young children in and around the house quite a bit. (I admit to ignorance of parole procedures. I didn't know that agents were EXPECTED to interview neighbors.)
I said earlier that I could understand how parole agents missed the stuff behind the fence. If you see a more-or-less standard size lot with a fence at the back you are inclined to believe that is the end of the property. If that was all we were dealing with, that would be one thing. It appears that we are dealing with a LOT more than that.
The question then becomes what gets covered up and who gets thrown to the wolves. The slinging of whitewash and the pointing of fingers will commence almost immediately. With a bit of luck some honest self-evaluation will also come, sometime, resulting in meaningful change of procedure.
ADDENDUM: Below is a link to the entire 45 page report.
http://www.oig.ca.gov/media/reports/BAI/reports/Special%20Report%20on%20CDCR's%20Supervision%20of%20Parolee%20Phillip%20Garrido.pdf
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
I G Interviewed On KCRA.
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3 comments:
How can a parole unit supervisor allow a 290PC case to be supervised at minimum service? WTF? This case is truly an embarassment for our department.
It's called money. It's the same reason that our unit is running near 40% ms/pm cases. Some of those are in the MHSDS and/or transient. Management is playing the odds that another Dugard case won't hit for some time. I just do my case reviews to keep the cases where they need to be and make specs.
When region 3 dumped a bunch of my cases to ms, I did case reviews to raise them back to cs. I wonder if garrido was lowered to ms by administration? Cobra, we have too much BS paperwork that keeps us from spending more time out in the field.
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