A January 2001 risk assessment classified Garrido as low-risk, a classification the Inspector General called a serious error. A STATIC-99 assessment—a validated actuarial tool for sex offender risk—was run three weeks after his September 2009 arrest and rated him high-risk. No mental health referral was made until October 2007, more than eight years into California’s supervision.
The CDCR recommended discharging Garrido from parole four times: in 1999, 2004, 2005, and 2008. Nevada, which retained an interest in his supervision because of the original federal conviction there, declined each time.
The Inspector General’s report documented at least 30 contacts between public safety agencies—law enforcement, fire departments, other responders—and Garrido or his address. None of these contacts triggered a meaningful parole response.
A fire department call in June 2002 responded to the property after a juvenile was reported with a shoulder injury from a pool located in the hidden compound portion of the yard. That information was not relayed to the parole office. A neighbor called 911 in November 2006 to report tents and people, including children, in the backyard of the Garrido property. A deputy sheriff responded, spoke briefly with Garrido, and left. Nothing was reported to parole.
No parole agent ever interviewed a neighbor. The Inspector General’s report found that five neighbors had concerns about the property and the children they occasionally glimpsed or interacted with. One neighbor had met a girl named Jaycee in 1991—the year of the abduction—apparently without recognizing the significance of the encounter, and without any law enforcement system connecting it.