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How Did A State Contractor Slip A Sexually Violent Criminal Past Motel Management?

VALLEJO (CBS13) — Days after he was released from a state hospital, a sexually violent prisoner placed in Vallejo is on the move again.

Fraisure Smith was evicted from the Vallejo Motel 6 where he moved in on Monday. Management says he was staying there without their knowledge, and once they found out they immediately kicked him out.

Smith's move is monitored, and news media and Vallejo leaders knew he'd move into the Motel 6. So how is it possible motel staff did not?

"This morning I received a call from corporate headquarters of Motel 6," said Vallejo Mayor Osby Davis.

He criticized Motel 6 on Wednesday for renting a room to a violent sex offender. The mayor says he didn't have all the facts then, but now he has the real story.

He says Motel 6 told him that Liberty Healthcare, the state contractor in charge of monitoring and placing Smith, first tried renting a room under Smith's name. Police had recently distributed fliers to Vallejo motels and hotels, so staff recognized the name and said no.

"So I guess they assumed they were not going to be able to book any reservation using his name, so they used their own names," Davis said.

It was then that two Liberty Healthcare workers rented rooms under their own names, and did not inform motel staff that Smith would be staying there, Davis says the spokesman told him.

"And that was the only way they were able to slip by," he said.

Motel 6 sent a lengthy statement that read in part:

"Our enterprise has a very firm practice to not rent to known or registered sex offenders, and if we unknowingly do rent to such an individual under false name and later become aware, we follow protocols to immediately cancel the reservations."

The supervising state agency, the Department of State Hospitals, legally can't comment on specific cases. A spokesman says there are times security officers rent hotel rooms in their own names when the patient doesn't have a valid ID, but added, "In addition, the security team informs the motel that the patient is a high-profile P.C. 290 registrant."

Motel 6 and the city both say that notification didn't happen.

Smith has been refused by several other cities and is once again looking for a new home.

"I have a sense that he will not be in the City of Vallejo anymore," Davis said. "It was encouraging to find out that Motel 6 is a partner with the City of Vallejo to make our city safer and a pleasant place to be."

Smith's location tonight is not known.

Liberty did not return calls asking for comment on this case.

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