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Sheriff nixes San Luis Obispo sex offender’s home detention plan

September 30, 2021

By KAREN VELIE

In another twist, the San Luis Obispo Sheriff’s Department will not allow a former Morro Bay High School teacher, who was convicted of having sex with an underage student, serve his sentence at home. Instead, Tyler Andree will spend the duration of his four month sentence in the county jail.

Andree, now 25, had sexual intercourse with one of his female students, who at the time, was 17 years old. Later in 2020, Andree sent messages communicating explicit sexual intent to another 17-year-old female student.

In June, Andree pleaded no contest to sexual intercourse with a minor and contact with a minor for a sexual offense.

Then in July, a judge sentenced Andree to 120 days in jail. Andree applied for home detention, but the sheriff denied his request.

Tyler Andree

Andree then appealed the denial and succeeded in overturning the sheriff’s office’s initial decision. During a probation modification hearing on Wednesday, Judge Jacquelyn Duffy formally granted Andree’s request for home detention.

However, the sheriff’s office conducted a further review based on the conviction being a sex crime, which resulted in Andree’s home detention again being denied.

“The sheriff’s office takes crimes against children and sex crimes seriously, the decision to deny the appeal is in line with similar decisions in similar cases,” according to the sheriff’s office. “The sheriff’s office evaluates all home detention cases on a case-by-case basis but generally crimes against children, sex crimes, or violent crimes do not qualify for home detention in order to ensure public safety.


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Not sure how a sex crime is not a violent crime when the crime harms the victim through a physical act.


Having said that, the SLO County Sheriff’s Department’s job is to enforce terms of punishment dictated by the courts, not dictate to the courts the terms of punishment. Especially not this particular sheriff, who failed to stop his deputies from tying a mentally ill man in distress to a chair with no food or water, making him sit in his own urine and feces for two days, and when they finally did let him up, they left him naked on concrete floor where he died alone, covered in his own shit.


The coward Ian Parkinson needs to go to prison


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Judge always wins.


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Hey, Judge Duffy? What ever happened to #metoo?


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Why didn’t the Sheriffs department present this issue at the appeal hearing? Since when does the Sheriff have more authority than Superior Court?


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This whole thing does cause one to pause for a moment. The teacher knows he did wrong. period. Even consensual relations is absolutely forbidden in this setting. To appear lenient sends the message to all the other fools that they can get away with it. I recall ALL the situations I’ve heard about through the years of teacher-student liaisons at other high schools. Always after the fact, never caught, never punished… it harms and destroys. The educational system protects like no other. There needs to be an anonymous tip line or number where people can safely ( without retribution) report this behavior. The victims don’t come forward because they are young, never believed or embarrassed.


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Funny how a 17 year old voluntarily sleeping with the teacher is seen as a child victim of a child sex crime while surely the Sheriff Department has no problem with 17 (14) year old criminal in its (adult) system….


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Where does it say that this 17 year old voluntarily slept with the teacher? What we see here is an adult teacher in a position of power over a child that abused that power to sexually violate that child. Your 17/14 example is irrelevant.


33

Sounds like we found Tyler’s burner account? Enjoy county, chomo.


9

Crime of the century apparently.


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Ok, good call Mr. Dow. Maybe there is some justice in this world. I don’t think we should throw away the key on this kid, but he deserves a stretch in jail, no doubt.


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I agree with this move


54

You agree with the Sheriff’s Department directly overriding a judge’s decision? I wonder if Judge Jacquelyn Duffy feels the same….


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I agree. It both surprises and worries me that the Sheriff has the authority to overturn or deny a court’s decision.


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