How low can they sink?
SOMETHING STINKY IN DAPO (AGAIN)
By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
November 7, 2011
This particular tale of stinkiness originated about five years ago in DAPO [Adult Parole Division] Region III with a PA II named Robert Alfaro. He is currently the Parole District Administrator in Region IV Long Beach Parole Complex. Also involved are a couple of parole administrators, one of them being none other than Maria Franco, now head of Region III, and over 100 people at a Board and Care facility in Sylmar who were put at risk.
Five years ago Alfaro was assigned to the Midtown 2 Parole Unit. He placed a paroled registered sex offender and arsonist in a Board and Care home. He managed this feat by deliberately concealing from them the fact that the prospective resident parolee, G. Harris, was a registered sex offender and arsonist. The parolee set fire to the home and caught a new prison term for his trouble.
When the arson investigators were looking into the fire they notified the home operator that they had a parolee arsonist / sex offender as a resident. The management of that Board and Care home made a formal complaint to DAPO about Alfaro’s conduct. They were assured by DAPO that they would “take care of it.” In this case taking care of it meant a transfer to Region IV and two promotions. At least one of those promotions had Maria Franco sitting on the oral panel. Alfaro is firmly seated in the car Franco has been driving for some time. She is also busy tweaking promotions and arranging protected jobs for other riders in her car, even though there is supposed to be a hard freeze on promotions within DAPO.
Not only are parole agents being told to reduce their actual hours of field supervision in order to NOT roll up parolees, good people with intermediate seniority may be losing their jobs down the road because of home-boy hook-ups orchestrated by Ms. Franco. No wonder morale is in the crapper at DAPO. Not only is downsizing looking more and more real as the days go by the place smells like an old, nasty porta-potty, with Maria Franco hiding the turds.
Now one should ask; How is Alfaro going to justify the lax parole supervision of Richard L. Kaflin, assigned to the Long Beach Parole Complex, a convicted arsonist with a history of sex related offenses, who has now been charged with the horrific and unprovoked murder of a 74-year old man inside the Wal-Mart store in Lakewood? Maybe Alfaro just has a soft spot for arsonist-sex offenders.
(For those of Paco’s readers who may not be up on the jargon, THE CAR is an old tradition within CDCR. It is a group of people who travel together in a career sense. These cars are often ethnically oriented, though not always so. The one Maria Franco is driving is unquestionably so.)
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