phillip garrido

Shining a light into the shadows of government documents and business is what a free press should be about. That's why Sunshine Week, the annual invocation of open government and the public's right to have access to what their government is doing, is more important than ever. In 2004, California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 59, which placed the public's right to access government records into the state Constitution.  

CBS 13 KOVR Co-Anchors Pallas Hupe & Sam Shane in Studio with Andrea Menniti reporting from Antioch California. Andrea Menniti Investigators process the evidence in Phillip Garrido's backyard property and that of his next door neighbors Damon Robinson. Investigators are working diligently to link Phillip Garrido to other cold case crimes that have occurred in and around the Antioch California.  

In kindergarten, I had a teacher named Ms. Beaver (no joke). She was a surly old dame who wore floral muumuu dresses and was once rumored to have kicked a hole in the wall to quiet a rambunctious class. I don't remember a lot about my time with her, but one thing I remember clearly is the clever way she got us to memorize things.  

Under court order, state prison officials last month released 120 pages of parole field records tracking the man charged with holding Jaycee Lee Dugard captive for 18 years. The records contained embarrassing revelations of lax oversight and cursory checks regarding supervision of Phillip Garrido, a convicted sex offender. Agents noted "weird" behavior on visits but left in less than 10 minutes.

It should be known who missed the call and what kind of system it is that allows obvious signs of disturbing tendencies to slip through the cracks   -Terry Francke

 

In a horrific case sure to be compared to that of Josef Fritzl , a New Jersey man is accused of raping his five daughters and fathering six children , while evading detection by a child welfare agency. David Porter of the AP reports that the father , who has not been named to protect the identities of his children, had "apocalyptic visions" of creating a "pure" family with his daughters. From the mid-eighties until 2002, he assaulted his daughters, intimidating them with beatings and starvation.  

Some new so-called cool car rules from the state are making law enforcement hot under the collar. There are worries Wednesday night that the rules will hurt GPS technology. GPS is used extensively by the California Department of Corrections to monitor parolees statewide.

I would prefer that they scrap it until they know 100 percent, that they can say 100 percent, this is safe and doesn't put lives in danger   -Tony Strickland

 

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered state corrections officials Tuesday to stop destroying sex offenders' parole files and to make as much of their contents public as possible. The move follows the arrest of a paroled sex offender accused of killing a 17-year-old girl near San Diego last month and under investigation in the death of a 14-year-old who disappeared in the same area more than a year ago. It also follows The Bee's successful lawsuit last month to force corrections officials to turn over the  

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered state corrections officials Tuesday to stop destroying sex offenders' parole files and to make as much of their contents public as possible. The move follows the arrest of a paroled sex offender accused of killing a 17-year-old girl near San Diego last month and under investigation in the death of a 14-year-old who disappeared in the same area more than a year ago. It also follows The Bee's successful lawsuit last month to force corrections officials to turn over the  

The man accused of kidnapping Jaycee Dugard, Phillip Garrido, had a victim before Dugard was even born. It was Katie Callaway Hall. She is the South Lake Tahoe woman who was kidnapped and raped by Garrido in 1976. Garrido was sentenced to 50 years for that crime but only served 11 years before being paroled.