CA: CDCR Kicks Off ‘Operation Boo’ Halloween Safety Campaign

Source: cdcr.ca.gov 10/28/24

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Halloween is fast approaching, and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is helping to keep kids and families safe. Throughout the week, CDCR parole agents will be providing safety tips for trick-or-treaters via social media and as part of a comprehensive parents’ guide on our 2024 Operation Boo webpage. (Follow us on the following social media platforms: FacebookInstagramX

THE BIGGER PICTURE: Hundreds of parole agents across the state, in collaboration with local law enforcement partners, will conduct compliance checks on sex offender supervised persons who are prohibited from having contact with minors. Last year, more than 97 percent of supervised people with special conditions for Halloween night were in compliance. 

Awareness can go a long way in helping keep children and families safe – not just on Halloween, but all the time. CDCR’s Division of Adult Parole Operations (DAPO) is doing our part to keep families and children safe this holiday, but you can do your part by talking to your children before trick-or-treating about personal safety.

DAPO Director Jason Johnson

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You know during my probationary period, I was prevented from having or putting up Halloween decorations of any sort. But the one thing I was still allowed to have, was candy. Sweet, sweet candy. Pretty soon we’ll have to deal with a politician (from either party) parading around the halls of the state legislature and they will proclaim “If RSOs are permitted to have Skittles, Twix bars, Mars bars and the like, it will be a COMPLETE PUBLIC SAFETY BREAKDOWN!”

The good news in this report is it states that 97 percent of registrants were found compliant last year.

Is this only for Registrants who did state time OR does this also include Registrants who did federal time as well?

For PFRs off probation in SoCal, I would keep an eye out and avoid receiving LEOs at your door. Since you’re under no obligation to interface with them. In LA, I had multiple years during “Boo” that LAPD and or the SAFE task force would do compliance checks to my apartment. I was an unlisted PFR misdemeanant, but by their consistent Boo visits you’d think I was some dangerous villain. But I just let them knock and even turned the TV volume UP so they knew I was home but choosing to ignore them. They eventually get the message and leave. Also worth noting that I think Boo goes past the 31st as one year, they came knocking about 11/7 first thing in the morning. That time, I was pissed at the hour, opened the door, and told them they were out of line and to leave immediately. They did so mumbling things under their breath. The Boo spectacle is a security theater run amok.

Last edited 5 days ago by NjM

Yeah SAFE be watching you for weeks before they actually make contact with you.

I am going to send an email to CA CDCR in response to this performative waste of resources and enlighten them with a few facts. I am also going to ask for stats on how many children are hit by moving vehicles on Halloween (or any other time for that matter), and whether the drivers intoxicated. I may also inquire about how many minors are hurt or killed by gun-related deaths each year, accidental or otherwise, then ask them to please focus their tax payer’s money where it actually helps people instead of bullying others who are minding their own business.

It takes no courage to knock on a door and demand a signature. “Compliance” is not an achievement or success. The officers participating in this misguided harassment will never protect what they go home to.

Operation “boo?” No, it’s more like Operation Witch Hunt because that’s exactly what it is.