State: Garrido Undersupervised for Eight Years

SACRAMENTO, CA - Accused kidnapper and convicted rapist Phillip Garrido went several years with minimal California parole agent oversight and was even touted as a "suitable candidate for discharge from state parole supervision," according to documents released by the California Department of Corrections.

In the documents released Friday, the CDCR states that after Garrido was placed under California parole supervision in June 1999, parole staff waited until May 2000 to visit Garrido's Antioch home.

The agents' contact was also significantly under the guidelines issued by the department.

During the 18-month period between June 1999 and December 2000, the documents show agents visited Garrido's home three times and his workplace eight times, while contacting him by phone twice and conducting drug tests five times.

As CDCR admits, "Staff should have visited Garrido at home 14 times and at the office two times, and should have drug tested him 16 times."

Parole supervision continued under the mandated levels until 2007, when parole agents met the yearly requirements and ordered Garrido attend parole outpatient treatment.

The documents show Garrido was incorrectly labeled a "low risk" sex offender, "despite the assessment's direction that low risk offenders are those whose controlling offenses are non-sexual," the report states.

Following his Nevada rape conviction in 1976, Garrido should have been classified as a "moderate or high risk," which would have exposed Garrido to greatly increased visits and testing before 2007.

"Even though parole staff eventually increased his supervision to include all these conditions, a determination in 2001 that Garrido posed a high risk could have resulted in the imposition of these conditions sooner," according to the report.

After Garrido was required to wear a GPS monitoring ankle bracelet in April 2008, a sample review of Garrido's GPS tracks show "Garrido was frequently in the rear portion of his back yard, where Jaycee Dugard was allegedly kept."

Jaycee Dugard was 11 when police say Phillip and wife Nancy Garrido kidnapped her in South Lake Tahoe, then holding her captive for 18 years in their Antioch back yard. Police said Garrido raped Dugard, now 29, and fathered her daughters. The Garridos have pleaded not guilty.