Garrido Improperly Supervised, Report Says

(CBS/ AP)  Updated at 2:55 p.m. EST

Corrections officials failed to properly supervise parolee Phillip Garrido and missed opportunities to discover Jaycee Lee Dugard, the girl he allegedly kidnapped and held in his backyard for 18 years, a report summary released Wednesday said.

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."

Behind The Smile of Jaycee Lee Dugard

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 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. Phillip Garrido had been convicted in 1977 for kidnapping and raping a 25-year-old woman.

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.

Still, the backyard encampment where Garrido allegedly hid and raped Dugard went unnoticed by authorities. Police say Garrido fathered Dugard's two daughters, now 15 and 11, who were born in the ramshackle tent compound.

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.

[squirl38]

I can not believe that the news and so many other people actually think that the appropriate thing to say directly after reporting any kind of crime is that some government department or the police department should have done something different...Do you not see that those kinds of comments take the focus and direct blame from the murdering rapist and put it on the only people who are doing anything at all to make sure these things don't happen...Yes, they get paid..but what about the fact that these people have chosen to risk their lives to protect others..We don't go out and solve our own crimes do we? When I see family members of crime victims immediatley speak out against the cops instead of the evil person who committed the crime..you know at that point it is all about a law suit..how do you sleep at night? If my family member was murdered the absolute responsibility would lye on the murders..not the only people who are going to help put the animal away..How is greed even in your mind after your loved one dies..lets take the responsibily for these crimes and put it on the criminal not the crime fighters..the general public has no Idea of how to do the officers job..they don't go into McDonald's and tell you how much salt to put on the fries..do they? The daughter of one of the 11 murder victims in Ohio who only cares about what the cops did not do..I am talking to you..you should be ashamed of yourself..tell you what..next time you are being robbed..why don't you handle it yourself..don't call the cops..you have no respect for just how difficult their job is.

[armyoftwelve]

To say that parole officials "missed opportunites" is a huge understatement.

[squirl38]

What did you do? how are you qualified to make that statment? Really, are you in law inforcement or are you just someone who believs that just because we have freedom of speech in this county, does not mean that you are qualified to free your speech if you don't have a clue..

[skeezix06]

If you want these people monitored closely then you better plan to pay higher taxes. Realistically speaking, you can't expect to get oversight of violent criminals unless you pay to hire and provide salaries to those who perform the oversight. In our system, that takes tax money.

[tbird6740]

Has anybody figured out what that nasty looking thing is on the side of Garrido's nose?

[dmtreat]

talk about "dropping the ball", the parole officers got a whole lotta money for doing a whole lotta nothing!

[SusanStoHelit]

Parole officers generally have a huge caseload - enough to ensure they can spend very little time with each individual.

[dmtreat]

talk about "dropping the ball", the parole officers got a whole lotta money for doing a whole lotta nothing!

[bradkt1]

The issue isn't whether he was properly supervised...he wasn't supervised at all!

He wasn't a model parolee, either, now was he?

Idiots!

[Skirtlifters]

I've got two words for this headline: duh!

[tomrobla]

California Dept of Corrections is among the most powerful lobbying groups in California. Their workers are among the highest paid with the best benefits in the United States.

[greennnnnn-2009]

There's no excuse for anything like this to ever happen. So, they are assigned 40 offenders? So what? There are 52 weeks in a year. Plenty of time to check out 40 lousy offenders. They could be checked out 3 or 4 times a year at that rate, or even more frequently. If they find it physically impossible to do this, then they need to keep these monsters in prison. Amazing, they check up on drug offenders more closely than sex offenders/rapists. I, myself, am getting pretty sick and tired of this kind of thing happening when other lesser crimes are more severely punished. I always say, and I've said it for years, if you're gonna do a crime, you may as well make it murder because you'll serve less time. Truly sickening......................the parole officers need to be held accountable and stop using the excuse that there's not enough time to check these people out. Hey, they were already at the door of these 2 dudes and didn't catch either of them until later.