Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard and her family have filed claims against the state of California for damages they say resulted from "various lapses" by the corrections department. Jon Myers, a spokesman for California's Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board, says Dugard, her two daughters and her mother, Terry Probyn, each have filed claims with the board.

The El Dorado County sheriff's department is fighting a Northern California couple's request for in-jail visits while they await trial for kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard. Lawyers for the county filed court papers Tuesday opposing the request from Phillip and Nancy Garrido. Their lawyers have asked a judge to compel jail officials to allow the two to meet face-to-face so they can talk about the case, their finances and their hopes for Dugard and the two daughters she had with Phillip Garrido.

Kidnapping victim Jaycee Lee Dugard says she wants nothing to do with Phillip and Nancy Garrido, the couple charged with abducting her in 1991 and holding her captive in the backyard of their Antioch home for 18 years. In court documents filed Thursday in El Dorado County, prosecutors say Phillip Garrido concocted an elaborate plan to stay in touch with Dugard in case he was ever arrested.

A couple being held on charges of abducting a girl more than 18 years ago and keeping her in their backyard wants permission to visit each other in the jail, a defense lawyer said Thursday. Phillip and Nancy Garrido have pleaded not guilty to kidnapping Jaycee Dugard when she was 11, raping her and confining her and the daughters she bore by Phillip Garrido to a hidden compound in the backyard of their Antioch home.

A retired federal parole agent said Tuesday he is sorry neither he nor any of his colleagues discovered Jaycee Dugard was living in her alleged captor's backyard during the years Phillip Garrido was under their supervision in Northern California. Houston Antwine told Sacramento television station KCRA that he couldn't recall visiting the Antioch home where Garrido lived after he was paroled from federal prison in 1988 until his arrest in August or even having the convicted kidnapper as part of his caseload.

A judge has set bail at $20 million for the woman accused of kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard and holding her captive for 18 years. In setting the high bail amount, El Dorado Superior Court Judge Douglas Phimister said Thursday that he considered Nancy Garrido to be a "danger to the community and also a flight risk." Garrido has pleaded not guilty in the 1991 kidnapping and sexual assault.

The lawyer seeking to represent one of Jaycee Dugard's accused kidnappers has been again removed from the case. Gilbert Maines has been fighting to keep his job as Nancy Garrido's court-appointed defense lawyer since last fall, when he was fired by El Dorado Superior Court Judge Douglas Phimster over conflict-of-interest allegations.

A California appeals court says an El Dorado County judge improperly fired the defense lawyer representing one of Jaycee Dugard's accused kidnappers. The 3rd District Court of Appeal on Tuesday ordered the judge either to reinstate Placerville lawyer Gilbert Maines as Nancy Garrido's court-appointed attorney or to provide more evidence showing why Maines should be kept off the case.

A parole agent who oversaw the man accused of kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard has been transferred for the safety of him and his family. California corrections department spokesman Gordon Hinkle says the agent and his family were moved to a new location after he was publicly identified. His children had to be taken out of school because of threats, Hinkle said Wednesday.

A spokeswoman for Jaycee Dugard says only Dugard and her family should decide when and if a film is made based on the 18 years she spent with the man charged with kidnapping her. In a statement Tuesday, family spokeswoman Nancy Seltzer termed a plan to make a movie about her life as "exploitive, hurtful and breathtakingly unkind."