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## Eighteen Years of Failed Supervision
The California Inspector General’s Office published its special report on the supervision of parolee Phillip Garrido in November 2009, approximately three months after Jaycee Dugard was identified. The report documented one of the most comprehensive failures of parole supervision in California history.
The fundamental finding was numerical and damning: of 123 months of documented supervision, only 12 were rated as satisfactory. Required actions were missing approximately 90 percent of the time.
Garrido had been under federal parole supervision when he committed the 1991 abduction. He eventually transferred to California state parole supervision. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) became responsible for monitoring him. The Inspector General found that California parole agents had never obtained Garrido’s federal parole file—a file that contained documented information about his mental health history, his drug history, his prior violations, and, critically, a soundproofed studio on the property. That information sat in federal records that California never retrieved.
The first home visit by a California parole agent did not occur until May 2000—nearly a year after California supervision formally began in June 1999. That five-month delay was partly the result of a jurisdictional dispute over supervision responsibility. During those months, contact consisted of monthly written reports and phone calls.
Between June 2001 and July 2002, there were no home visits at all. Between June 2004 and August 2005, only one home visit was documented. Required supervisory case reviews were skipped, including a continuous stretch from April 2001 to October 2003 during which supervisors conducted no reviews whatsoever. When supervisors did conduct reviews, they missed obvious deficiencies in what they examined.