Whether the FBI visit generated any immediate follow-up action is not established in the public record.
What is established is that Garrido arrived at the UC Berkeley campus police office on August 24, sought a permit, left when asked to return the next day, came back on August 25, and met with Jacobs and Campbell—and that it was the specific content of what the two women observed that prompted the call to the parole office.
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## What Lisa Campbell Noticed
Lisa Campbell’s background was relevant to what happened on August 24. She had worked as a Chicago police officer and had done background investigation work for the Los Angeles Police Department before taking her role managing special events at UC Berkeley. She brought a professional’s trained eye to the encounter, even though the permit request itself was entirely routine.
What she observed fell short of a crime. Garrido was not doing anything illegal in her office. He was making a permit request. The girls with him were not visibly injured. There was no screaming, no obvious sign of distress.
But Campbell found Garrido incoherent and mentally unstable. His speech, by her later account, was scattered and difficult to follow. His claims—about the “really big” event involving the government, about God’s Desire, about the significance of what he was doing—did not cohere. She described him to Officer Ally Jacobs afterward as a “crazy” man who claimed he could talk to God with a special machine.
And then there were the girls.