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  • #301
School symphony pays tribute to Chelsea King
Friday, April 2, 2010 at 2 a.m.
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Poway High School&#8217;s wind symphony dedicated its performance last night to Chelsea King, a senior French horn player who disappeared Feb. 25 after going for a run near Lake Hodges. The symphony played at an annual Band and Orchestra Invitational Festival at the Poway Center for the Performing Arts. A chair was left empty for Chelsea, 17, whose contribution was covered by French horn coach Mike McCoy.

Article:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/apr/02/school-symphony-pays-tribute-chelsea-king/
 
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  • #303
GPS ankle bracelet designed for real-time sex offender tracking
Posted: Apr 02, 2010 3:11 PM EDT
Updated: Apr 02, 2010 3:25 PM EDT
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The murder of 17-year-old Chelsea King, allegedly by a registered sex offender, has generated calls for tougher laws dealing with convicted criminals. One change being discussed is real-time GPS monitoring for sex offenders. A company called GPS Monitoring Solutions says it's come up with a device.

In this News 8 CrimeFighters video story, Jeff Zevely shows us how it works.

Video: GPS ankle bracelet designed for real-time sex offender tracking 3:41
http://www.cbs8.com/global/category...default&clipId=4672714&flvUri=&partnerclipid=

Article:
http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=12248786
 
  • #304
Report: Gardner Had MySpace Page Despite Rules
POSTED: 12:02 pm PDT April 1, 2010
UPDATED: 6:50 pm PDT April 1, 2010
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Registered sex offender John Albert Gardner III, the man charged in the death of Poway teen Chelsea King, allegedly hid a MySpace page from state prison officials while under their supervision, it was reported Thursday. The page was opened in December 2007 when the terms of Gardner's parole forbade him from being anywhere near a computer, 10News' media partner The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. According to the newspaper, an e-mail address links the page to an Escondido address where Gardner was living at the time.

10News learned Gardner used MySpace to communicate with his girlfriend, Jariah Baker, and others. Six months before his release from parole, Gardner posted: "Energizer bunny &#8230; I'm poor, homeless and living in my truck." Another post by Gardner state: "I used to know love and [now] I have a new look on that situation. Love is just one big ugly compromise of two people pretending to not know what the other is doing. I [realize] this may come as a shock to some but [that's] how I see it [until] proven otherwise."

A preliminary hearing is set for Aug. 4.

Video: Investigator Discovers Gardner's MySpace Page
http://www.10news.com/video/23026911/index.html

Article:
http://www.10news.com/news/23027100/detail.html
 
  • #305
MySpace Removes Link to Gardner's Profile
My Space said it was alerted to the account by law enforcement officials
Updated 8:31 AM PDT, Fri, Apr 2, 2010
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The social networking site MySpace said Thursday that it removed the profile of a registered sex offender who is charged with murdering a 17-year-old girl. The company said it worked with the FBI and the San Diego County Sheriff's Department to confirm the profile belonged to John Albert Gardner III, who used a false name, birthday and hometown to register for the account. It removed the profile Wednesday night. A copy of the profile obtained by The Associated Press uses the names Jason Stud and Energizer Bunny. It uses sexually explicit language to describe his interests, names Playboy Mansion as his hometown and lists "CSI" and "Bones" among his favorite television shows.

MySpace said the account was set up on Dec. 22, 2007, more than nine months before Gardner ended parole on a conviction in 2000 for molesting a 13-year-old neighbor. The account would violate terms of his parole, which prohibited him from using a computer to connect to the Internet or communicate with others. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has not independently confirmed that the MySpace profile was created or used by Gardner, or that he used the site while on parole, said spokesman Oscar Hidalgo. He said the California Sex Offender Management Board, a panel made up law enforcement, victims and treatment experts, would investigate.

The San Diego Union-Tribune first reported on Gardner's MySpace profile late Wednesday. It said the link was discovered by Robert Scott, a Los Angeles private investigator who operates an online data retrieval service called Skip Smasher. Scott said he plugged Gardner's name into his search engines to get an e-mail account registered to the suspect. "It was remarkably simple," he said Thursday.

Video: Gardner Was on "Downward Spiral": Roommate
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local-beat/Gardner_Was_on__Downward_Spiral___Roommate_San_Diego.html

Video: Gardner's Girlfriend
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local-beat/Gardner_s_Girlfriend_San_Diego.html

Video: Chelsea King Murder Suspect Broke Parole
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local-beat/Chelsea_King_Murder_Suspect_Broke_Parole_San_Diego.html

Article:
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local-beat/MySpace-Removes-Link-to-Gardners-Profile---89773742.html
 
  • #306
  • #307
Sex offender GPS demonstration presented in court
Mar 31, 2010
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The Chelsea King case has raised a number of issues about tracking sex offenders, and in particular using GPS to monitor them. A San Diego courtroom Tuesday was the site of a "GPS demonstration." It took place before a single judge rather than a panel of judges, and no legislators were present. But advocates say the demonstration is a needed first step.

Video: Sex offender GPS demonstration presented in court 3:50
http://www.kusi.com/home/89567767.html?video=YHI&t=a

Article:
http://www.kusi.com/home/89567767.html
 
  • #308
Call for tightened laws on child sex predators
Mar 31, 2010
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Speakers outlined plans for a proposed Chelsea's Law in memory of Chelsea King, whose body was found earlier this month, five days after she disappeared on an afternoon run. The man charged in her death was convicted of molesting a 13-year-old neighbor in 2000.

Republican Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher said Chelsea's Law would require life prison sentences for sexually violent child predators and lifetime parole for less serious offenders. The law would bar parolees from schools, parks and bus stops.

Video: Call for tightened laws on child sex predators 3:38
http://www.kusi.com/home/89614007.html?video=YHI&t=a

Article:
http://www.kusi.com/home/89614007.html
 
  • #309
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  • #311
Local radio host puts on fundraiser for Chelsea King and Amber DuBois families
March 22, 2010
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The out-pour of community support for Chelsea King and Amber DuBois families have shown just how caring and connected our community is. Rick Amato of The Rick Amato Show on KCBQ AM 1170 in San Diego, was in studio today to talk about a special fundraiser to raise money and show support for the King and DuBois families.

Video: Local radio host puts on fundraiser for Chelsea King and Amber DuBois families 4:50
http://www.kusi.com/news/goodmorning/87834957.html?video=YHI&t=a

Remembering Amber & Chelsea
Bring Amber Home
http://www.bringamberhome.com/

Chelsea's Light
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=371457036508&ref=mf#!/chelseaslight?ref=ts

Chelsea's Light Foundation
http://www.chelseaslight.org/

Finish Chelsea's Run
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=371457036508&ref=mf

Article:
http://www.kusi.com/news/goodmorning/87834957.html
 
  • #312
California Parole System Criticized
April 2, 2010
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GLORIA PENNER (Host): There's renewed interest in the accused killer of teenager Chelsea King. Reports of John Gardner violating the terms of his parole after a sex-offense conviction, are stirring criticism of the parole, and sex offender monitoring agencies. Ricky Young, government editor for the San Diego Union-Tribune is with me to explain. So Ricky what have we learned about Garner's activites after he was paroled as a convicted sex offender, that has stirred this concern?

RICKY YOUNG (Editor, San Diego Union-Tribune): Well, he got on parole in 2005 after a 2000 incident where he molested and beat a 13-year-old Rancho Bernardo girl. And, the provisions of his parole called for a number of things. It didn't allow for him to live in certain places, it didn't allow for him to be on the Internet, didn't allow all sorts of things and its turned out that in at least seven cases, and we uncovered an eighth this week, regarding him having a Myspace page, that he violated his parole.

PENNER: But he was never sent back to prison.

YOUNG: Never sent back to prison.

PENNER: So how does the parole board explain this?

YOUNG: Well one thing they say is that uh the prisons are full and if they sent someone back to prison every time they violated one of these provisions, some of which are fairly minor, that they just wouldn't have room for them.

Video: California Parole System Criticized 6:10
The case of John Albert Gardner III, the convicted sex offender accused of raping and killing local teenager Chelsea King, has raised many questions about the state's parole system and how Gardner was monitored following his release from prison. We speak to Ricky Young, from the San Diego Union-Tribune, about the latest.
*Download MP4 or View At Article Link!
http://kpbs.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/video/2010/04/02/parole.mp4

View transcript:
http://www.kpbs.org/videos/2010/apr/02/4724/#transcript

Article:
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2010/apr/02/california-parole-system-criticized/
 
  • #313
State Parole Officials Investigate John Gardner Release
Last Update: 4/01 1:35 pm
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State lawmakers question high ranking officials with the California Department of Corrections about improving the Parole System. "I think it's time for corrections to turn the corner and be part of the solution. Stop defending a broken system and tell us what they need," says State Assembly Member Nathan Fletcher.

The Undersecretary of Operations for the Department of Corrections says the rating system used to gage Gardner's threat level while on parole ranked him as a two out of a possible ten, even though the mental health report spelled out serious concerns that he would offend again. Officials confirm that report was not considered when ranking Gardner.

"What do you have to do to get a ten if what Gardner did gets you a two," says Fletcher.

The Director of Parole Operations says keeping an eye on sex offenders goes way beyond his office. "Sex offenders are a community problem. They are a a community issue. They are not a department of corrections issue. I don't mean that in a sense of trying to cut myself from the problem but we are a 10% answer in a 100% issue," says Robert Ambroselli. "The reality is if an offender has been a monster, like Gardner -- is bent on hurting our children -- nothing that probation, parole, or law enforcement -- as long as he is free -- is going to stop it," says Scott Kernan the Undersecretary of Operations for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

According to state officials, there are an estimated 70,000 sex offenders living in California with about 7400 of them on parole. Taxpayers pay $60-million a year for them to be monitored.
*Much More At Link! (6-page article!)

Video: Parole Questions 3/31/10 3:29
While convicted sex offender John Gardner was on parole, he was considered to be a very low threat to the public. Now lawmakers want to know why.
http://www.sandiego6.com/mediacenter/[email protected]&navCatId=5

Related video...added for reference!
Video: Tracking Sex Offenders 2:14
A law giving stronger punishments and restrictions for sex offenders was overwhelmingly approved by voters in California. 11/3/07
http://www.sandiego6.com/mediacenter/[email protected]&navCatId=5

Read part 1 of the John Gardner prison file (6.0MB)
http://www.sandiego6.com/media/lib/...2-a69e-219d3a4bc058/Gardner_central_file1.pdf

Read part 2 of the John Gardner prison file (6.1MB)
http://www.sandiego6.com/media/lib/...e-9f55-95da0db88115/Gardner_central_file2.pdf

Read the John Gardner criminal complaint (1.6MB)
http://www.sandiego6.com/media/lib/...b4ab9a900be5/CD225886_John_Albert_Gardner.pdf

Megan's Law Website
http://www.meganslaw.ca.gov/index.aspx?lang=ENGLISH

Article:
http://www.sandiego6.com/news/local...-Bernardo-jogging/zTLAKar0XUGyf78trbfHvg.cspx
 
  • #314
  • #315
It's time to unfold the eyes of Lady Justice
Published: March 23, 2010
Updated: March 26, 2010 1:25 p.m.
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Is the problem in the criminal justice system, or could it be in the social structure of our society, where there are more excuses for lack of accountability? Should the goal of the criminal justice system to be the conviction of the guilty, fair trails for all, or the elimination and reduction of such brutal crimes?

On the other hand, if fair trails are the goal, and crime still dominates, then how could we maintain our confidence?

We live in a country that has shown concern for other nations' lack of fairness and harmful cultures and customs. Perhaps it is time to rethink some aspects of the infrastructure of our traditional criminal justice system.

In memoriam of Chelsea King, Amber Dubois, and Lily Burk.

Article:
http://www.ocregister.com/news/criminal-240616-justice-ribbons.html
 
  • #316
http://www.10news.com/news/23169959/detail.html

John Gardner To Appear In Court Today

Status Conference Scheduled

POSTED: 4:16 am PDT April 16, 2010


SAN DIEGO -- A sex offender charged with raping and killing a 17- year-old Poway High School senior is scheduled for a court hearing Friday.

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  • #317
Interviews of offenders cut sharply
Critics say the change in policy may be illegal
Sunday, April 4, 2010 at 12:07 a.m.
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The mental health experts who help decide whether convicted sex offenders are too dangerous to be released from custody used to rely heavily on face-to-face interviews.

They would travel to the prison, sit across a desk from the inmate in a tiny office and ask deeply personal questions about parents, siblings, puberty, sex. Many say it&#8217;s the best way to understand what makes someone tick.

Now the experts are more likely to sit at home and look at an inmate&#8217;s records on a computer screen.

That shift in policy may be illegal, critics say. It has prompted a local assemblyman to ask for a government audit and has raised concerns about the effectiveness of a program designed to protect the public from what are known formally as sexually violent predators.

&#8220;It&#8217;s gone from a very well-functioning program to just a disaster,&#8221; said a sex-offender evaluator who has worked on the program since its inception in 1996. She asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing state contracts. &#8220;The whole program is in disarray.&#8221;

Nancy Kincaid, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Mental Health, which runs the Sex Offender Commitment Program, denied that the new policy is illegal or that it has affected the quality of the evaluations. She said about 40 percent of the inmates refuse to be interviewed anyway.

Johnson said evaluators who refuse to do record reviews on ethical grounds face a backlash. The evaluator said there&#8217;s pressure from department administrators to find that an inmate isn&#8217;t dangerous.

Kincaid called those allegations &#8220;patently false.&#8221; She said evaluators are encouraged to get whatever records they need to render an opinion and, if in doubt, can pass an inmate along to the next level of scrutiny, which includes interviews.

The evaluator acknowledged that she stands to gain financially if the program returns to more full evaluations and fewer record reviews. Some did very well under the old system.

In the first year after Jessica&#8217;s Law passed, the program raised the flat rate for evaluations from $2,000 to $3,500 to entice the 70 private-contract experts who perform them to do more and reduce a backlog.

About a dozen of them ended up making more than $500,000 that year, and at least one made more than $1 million. The latest contract still pays about $3,000 for clinical evaluations. The flat rate for a record review is $75.
*Much more at link!

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Article:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/apr/04/interviews-of-offenders-cut-sharply/
 
  • #318
Information control key in high-profile crime cases
Sunday, April 4, 2010
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When providing information about the string of attacks against a Hemet-based gang task force, Lt. Duane Wisehart said he tried to provide just the facts.

But the story then grew and the number of reporters calling for information and interviews kept climbing. The story was becoming a national, the subject of segments on CNN and Fox News, and politicians &#8212; some who are running for higher office &#8212; were adding their sometimes fiery rhetoric to the discussion.

&#8220;It has kind of got way out there,&#8221; said Wisehart, who served as the public information officer for the Hemet Police Department. &#8220;You want to provide accurate information, but some people take it too far.&#8221;

Wisehart bristled at those who suggested the release of information was done to scare the public and get the community to pressure elected officials to roll back or stop budget cuts aimed at the police department. He said an on-line blog has already been posted supporting that idea. &#8220;That is ridicules,&#8221; Wisehart said.

Peterson, with the public information association, said releasing information &#8220;up front&#8221; will make it easier in the long run. She related a story of a child who breaks the window of a neighbor and debates whether to tell her parents. She said it is better for the child to tell her parents rather than waiting for the neighbor to say something.

&#8220;No matter what, it&#8217;s better to get the information out there,&#8221; she said.
*Much more at link!

Article:
http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2010-0...cases-how-much-info-to-release-is-a-key-issue
 
  • #319
Rules could have returned suspect to prison
Officials routinely ignore regulations, critics say
Monday, April 5, 2010 at 12:04 a.m.
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During a 1992 traffic stop in Sacramento, eight-time convict Glen Cornwell was arrested in a car with a knife, a gun, some marijuana and rock cocaine. Normally, that&#8217;s big trouble for a parolee. But instead of returning to prison, Cornwell remained free. Months later, he killed William Reagan outside his check-cashing job over a satchel of money. Cornwell was sent to death row. Parole officials promised reforms that were named for Reagan&#8217;s outraged daughter, Robin.

The Robin Reagan rules could have landed John Albert Gardner III back in prison while on parole for a 2000 molestation conviction, subjecting him to additional GPS monitoring and screening as a sexually violent predator who could be held indefinitely in a state hospital.

Critics say budget-conscious prison officials routinely ignore the Reagan rules, which gave agents and supervisors less discretion and left more decisions to the Board of Parole Hearings. There are 15 rules that apply to all parolees, and three additional rules for serious offenders such as Gardner. &#8220;If you are a serious and violent offender, any behavior even as small as spitting on a sidewalk must be referred to the board,&#8221; said Assemblyman Jim Nielsen, the Tehama County Republican who pushed through the rules while serving as the parole board&#8217;s chairman in the 1990s.

&#8220;Six out of the seven times (Gardner) violated parole, he was not referred to the board,&#8221; Nielsen said. &#8220;The seventh time he got tender, loving care. Those failures are illegal, and they happen tens of thousands of times.&#8221;

The Robin Reagan rules were designed to prevent cases such as the 1993 murder of William Reagan, who was shot in the neck by Cornwell six months after the parolee&#8217;s encounter with Sacramento police. According to the regulations, &#8220;any criminal conduct&#8221; or &#8220;repetitive parole violations&#8221; can subject parolees to a board hearing instead of a review by field agents or administrators. Before the Reagan rules, agents had more discretion.

State prisons house more than 165,000 inmates in a system designed for about half that number. A federal court ordered Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to reduce the capacity by building more prisons or releasing up to 40,000 prisoners, but the governor appealed that ruling. In the meantime, he launched programs aimed at lowering both the prison and parolee populations. Last week, a crime-victims group sued the state to stop the early release of thousands of inmates.

Anthony Caso is a Sacramento attorney who represented Robin Reagan in her 1993 complaint. He blamed a lack of resources for the prison agency&#8217;s failure to fully adhere to reforms named for his client. &#8220;We can write all the laws and regulations and studies we want,&#8221; Caso said. &#8220;But there&#8217;s going to be another budget crisis down the road where somebody thinks it&#8217;s more important to save a few bucks rather than return a parolee to prison.&#8221;

Reagan dropped her claim against state parole agents in 1995 after then-prisons chief James Gomez agreed to endorse the tough new regulations. In a letter to the murder victim&#8217;s daughter, Gomez said he had ordered new training and policies for agents that would &#8220;re-emphasize public safety as the overriding concern in all parole-revocation decisions,&#8221; The Orange County Register reported at the time.
*Much more at link!

The Robin Reagan rules could have sent John Albert Gardner III back to prison for a parole violation.
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Online Document: Read The Robin Reagan Rules:
http://uniontrib.com/docs

Article:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/apr/05/parolees-rules-could-have-sent-suspect-back-to/
 
  • #320
New Sex Offender Notification Program Approved
Last Update: 4/07 7:09 am
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Riverside County residents will soon have a new high-tech way to track sex offenders who move into their neighborhoods. Currently, people can track registered offenders via the Megan's Law website, but the Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved Tuesday a new way to alert residents when offenders relocate via a County website and notification system.

Supervisor Jeff Stone and District Attorney Rod Pacheco sponsored the S.P.I.R.I.T program-- which stands for sexual predator identification in Riverside County via internet tracking. "The program is a proactive approach to monitoring sex offenders in Riverside County through a new mapping and tracking system, viewable by the general public, via the District Attorney's Web site," said D.A. spokesman Ryan Hightower.

The main purpose of the program is to let people know when a sex offender moves into a new neighborhood through the D.A.'s website-- while also utilizing both e-mail and traditional mail notifications.

The supervisor added that in light of the recent tragic deaths of Chelsea King and Amber Dubois in the San Diego area, "we can always do more" to protect the public. A convicted child molester, John Gardner, has been charged with killing Chelsea King.

The D.A.'s office tells KPSP Local 2 that this new program will be up and running within the next several weeks.

*Video Included In Article: Instant Notification Of A Sex Offender In Your County

Riverside County District Attorney Website
http://www.rivcoda.org/

Article:
http://www.kpsplocal2.com/Content/T...-Program-Approved/0Ll5_FLFsUyvuFB2zIxiTg.cspx
 
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