In June 2008, a parole agent visited the Garrido property and encountered a twelve-year-old girl. Garrido told the agent the girl was his brother’s daughter. A simple verification call to the brother would have disproven this. No such call was made. The agent accepted the explanation and moved on.
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## The GPS Monitoring That Wasn’t Monitored
The Inspector General’s report devoted particular attention to the GPS monitoring program, which had been placed on Garrido beginning in April 2008. The monitoring had the form of accountability without its substance.
The passive GPS monitoring system generated alerts automatically when certain conditions were met. Between April 2008 and June 2009, the system issued 335 alerts for lost signal—almost every night—indicating that Garrido’s ankle monitor was losing its signal with unusual regularity. Agents acknowledged 59 of those alerts and took no documented follow-up action on any of them. The remaining 276 were never acknowledged.
The system also generated 14 curfew departure alerts—alerts indicating that Garrido had left his home during restricted nighttime hours. Agents ignored all of them.
Garrido was supposed to remain within a 25-mile travel zone without prior approval. Between July and August 2009, the GPS data showed he had exceeded that limit seven times in a 32-day period, including his August 24 trip to UC Berkeley’s campus, which was approximately 40 miles from his Antioch home. No travel permission was on file.
The GPS tracks also showed, the Inspector General found, that Garrido spent significant amounts of time in the hidden rear compound on his property. This information was never reviewed.