CrimeWatch

Near ANTIOCH (CBS 5 / AP / BCN) ― Corrections officials failed to properly supervise convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido and missed opportunities to discover the girl he allegedly kidnapped and held in his Antioch-area backyard for 18 years, according to a report released Wednesday.

The review by state Inspector General David Shaw blasted the handling of Garrido's case by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation during the decade he was under state supervision after being paroled in a previous rape case.

The report said parole agents were not trained to conduct home visits and did not follow up on information that showed Garrido violated his parole. It also faulted the state's GPS-monitoring system, saying it gives the public a false sense of security concerning the whereabouts of offenders.

Shaw said the GPS system falls short of its potential and recommended developing and implementing a comprehensive monitoring policy.

Police have said Garrido held Jaycee Lee Dugard captive and raped her in a backyard encampment of tents during a period from 1999 until his arrest in August. He allegedly fathered her two children.

Shaw criticized parole agents for not investigating the "clearly visible utility wires running from Garrido's house toward the concealed compound," not talking to neighbors who might have said something about the children and not questioning further the presence of a 12-year-old girl during a home visit.

"Our review shows that Garrido committed numerous parole violations and that the department failed to properly supervise Garrido and missed numerous opportunities to discover his victims," the report concluded.

The corrections department issued a written response saying it agreed to improve the parole system and cited legislation that would become effective next year intended to reduce caseloads among agents.

"The circumstances surrounding the kidnapping and 18-year disappearance of Jaycee Dugard are horrendous. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is committed to improving its operations every day to ensure an incident like this never happens again," CDCR secretary Matthew Cate said in the statement.

The total parole population in California is 109,982, with sex offenders numbering 6,782. The state has 2,493 parole agents, the statement said.

The El Dorado County District Attorney's Office also released a statement Wednesday, questioning "why a dangerous sexual predator like Phillip Garrido was released after serving only eleven years of a fifty-year federal sentence and a five-to-life Nevada State sentence."

That issue was not addressed in the report.

Garrido, 58, was under federal parole supervision between August 1988 and January 1999 and required to register as a sex offender.

It was during that time that he and his wife, 55-year-old Nancy Garrido, allegedly snatched Dugard outside her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991 when the girl was 11. Phillip Garrido had been convicted in 1977 for kidnapping and raping a 25-year-old woman.

The report found federal parole authorities failed to detect any criminal conduct or discover his victims.

Because he was living at his mother's house in unincorporated Contra Costa County, California took over Garrido's supervision in June 1999 under an interstate parole compact.

As a parolee, Garrido wore a GPS-linked ankle bracelet that tracked his movements, met with his parole agent several times each month and was subject to routine surprise home visits and random drug and alcohol tests.

Garrido remained under supervision of state parole agents until his arrest on Aug. 26. That's when he showed up on the University of California at Berkeley campus with Dugard's two daughters and a university police officer became suspicious.

The Garridos have pleaded not guilty to 29 counts related to Dugard's abduction, rape and imprisonment. They were scheduled to be in El Dorado County Superior Court in Placerville on Dec. 11 for another preliminary hearing in the case.

Dugard, now 29, was reunited with her family in late August, and is living with her daughters and mother in an undisclosed location in Northern California.

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