Sacramento, CA…California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) parole agents contacted 1255 sex-offender parolees during compliance checks or searches as part of the 22nd annual Operation Boo Child Safety Project on Halloween night. “Our thanks go out to the hundreds of parole agents and local law enforcement personnel, many of whom volunteer their time to help ensure that California’s children can enjoy a safer trick-or-treat experience free from sexual predators,” said Bobby Haase, Deputy Director of the Division of Adult Parole Operations.
Fifty-two parolees were found to be in violation of their conditions of parole. New charges were filed against 4 of the sex-offender parolees contacted. Pornography was confiscated from sixteen of the parolees checked on Halloween night. Seven were found with narcotics. Five parolees were caught with weapons.
Operation Boo also offered a free downloadable brochure. The Parent’s Guide has information to keep children safe all year. It features these components:
· Not Just Stranger Danger: The California Department of Justice‘s Megan’s Law website says 90% of child victims know their offender, with almost half of the offenders being a family member. Of sexual assaults against people age 12 and up, approximately 80% of the victims know the offender. CDCR listed several website locations with tips on how to talk to children about dangerous behaviors by any adult, not just strangers.
Parent Empowerment: Links to important tools were included to help keep children safe, such as the Megan’s Law website that helps the public pinpoint where sex-offenders live so children can stay clear of them.
For more information about Operation Boo please visit: www.cdcr.ca.gov
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In this entire country there has never been one case of a person required to register as a s3x offender abusing a random child trick-or-treating at his residence. Certainly not such a person on parole.
Where, then, does the claim that this is required to keep children safe, come from? Why is no one questioning it? This year, like every year, several children have been hurt and killed in automobile accidents the evening of October 31. Why not focus on traffic safety?
The people on parole are closely supervised by their assigned agents all year long. Why is no one questioning this circus? How much was spent on this PR stung, when all of these violations easily should and could have been discovered on a routine basis?
Operation Boo? Operation Officer Overtime is more like it.