California parole officials have issued new rules that increase monitoring of thousands of sex offenders already required to wear global positioning system tracking devices, reports the Los Angeles Times. The move that comes after sharp criticism of high-profile lapses by the department. Parole agents must now track the whereabouts of nearly 5,000 low-level sex offenders through ankle monitors at least four days a month. Previously, no policy mandated how often low-level offenders had to be tracked. An additional 2,000 high-risk sex offenders, who already are supposed to be monitored daily, must be visited by a parole officer at their homes twice a month, up from one monthly visit.
“We’ve never claimed that GPS monitoring is a cure-all — it can’t prevent a crime from happening or tell us what a parolee is doing, ” said Gordon Hinkle of the state corrections department. “But it can tell us where they are.” The changes were prompted by a review of the parole agency in the wake of the Jaycee Lee Dugard case. The review found that parole agents for Phillip Garrido, who has been charged with Dugard’s kidnapping, missed numerous clues over the course of a decade that could have led them to Dugard far sooner. Dugard was 11 when she disappeared in 1991 from outside her home. She was 29 when she was found last year in Garrido’s backyard, where he allegedly confined her to a ramshackle set of buildings and tents.
What’s even more important is that law enforcement agencies in California should follow Jessica’s Law and utilize GPS post parole supervision. I am surprised that Californians are not insisting upon it. If this was followed in the San Diego case, perhaps the deaths of the young girls would have been avoided.
It sure is funny how a person can be stereotyped by the word “sex Offender” . What does that mean to you? A person who inflicts harm upon a child ( child being up to age 12 )? a person who molest or sodomizes an infant or child for pleasure? that’s just sick and people like that need to be hung as far as i am concerned . I worry about the “innocent sex offenders” ones who are trapped by under age 18 females then scream they were raped or molested while posing as adult females they become pregnant. OOps we have a problem. My son had consensual sex with a girl who had I.D. stating she was 21 he was 28. OOps again she got pregnant the first night. guess what she was 16 years old . My son was in the process of marring this girl and taking care of her and this child that we assume is his. His aunt he was angry at him reported that he was molesting a minor big fiasco my son did 3 years in prison the girl now 20 has and always has stated he never did any thing to her that she didn’t want done to her. So now my son is persecuted by his parole officer who refuses any housing he comes up with , goes to a job site and tells the home owner he is a molester he loses his job the home owner trys to get his girlfriend fired who by the way is 41years old. Yet the real molesters who are out there harming maming and killing our children are living in churches, and nice apartments.. while they continue to commit heinous crimes against children . What is wrong with this picture? Wake up people not all people should be judged by a title.