The UC Berkeley campus encounter provides one model: an informal observation by someone with relevant background, transmitted through available channels (the parole notification) to someone with authority and specific information (the parole officer’s knowledge that Garrido was not documented as having young daughters) who could act on the discrepancy.
The same model was available through many of the missed opportunities documented in the Inspector General’s report. The neighbor who called 911 in 2006 was performing an informal observation and transmitting it through an available channel (emergency dispatch). The channel did not reach the right person (the parole officer). The model could have worked; the infrastructure for making it work was not in place.
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## The Name
Jaycee Dugard has reclaimed her name. She did not reclaim it the moment she walked into the Concord parole office; she had spent eighteen years as “Allissa” and before that as a captive whose name existed only in the memories of people who did not know where she was. But after August 2009, the name Jaycee Lee Dugard—which had appeared on fliers and FBI bulletins and news broadcasts for nearly two decades as the name of a missing girl—became again the name of a living person who was making decisions about her own life.
She published her memoir under her own name. She founded the JAYC Foundation under her own initials. She gave interviews in her own name. She received awards in her own name. She has described herself as a survivor—a word she has chosen deliberately, with its implication of agency and continuation rather than victimhood alone.