November 5, 2009
Parole Officer Union: GPS Tracking System Does Little Good
Alleged Jaycee Dugard kidnapper Phillip Garrido was supposed to have worn a GPS monitoring device every day from April 2008 until this August, when he was arrested.
However, records indicate his GPS signal dropped out almost every night last summer. According to a report by the state Inspector General, when Garrido was wearing his GPS device, he routinely went places he wasn't supposed to go.
None of those alerts were ever acted on, and Lance Corcoran is not at all surprised.
"Those violations happen every day in California," said Corcoran. "They are as routine as stoplights. They happen all the time…"
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