CCPOA news
March 9, 2010
State’s policy on parole notes being reviewed
Three years of field notes from parole agents supervising John Albert Gardner III after his release from prison on a 2000 molestation conviction were destroyed under a state policy that is being reviewed as he faces charges of raping and murdering Chelsea King.
California prison officials said pertinent information on parolees is transferred to a central file and retained before agents’ notes are burned or shredded.
But Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, who represents the Poway area where Chelsea lived and went missing, wrote to state prisons Secretary Matthew Cate Monday, expressing alarm that the department destroys any records after one year...
LINK - SignonSanDiego.com (San Diego Union-Tribune)
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