Bill Text: CA AB3043 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Corrections: confidential calls.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 333, Statutes of 2020. [AB3043 Detail]

Download: California-2019-AB3043-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Senate  August 04, 2020

Amended  IN  Senate  June 30, 2020

Amended  IN  Assembly  May 11, 2020

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 3043

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Introduced by Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Kamlager)

February 21, 2020

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An act to add Section 5058.7 to the Penal Code, relating to corrections.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 3043, as amended, Jones-Sawyer. Corrections: confidential calls.

Existing law provides that an inmate in state prison has specified civil rights, including, among others, the right to confidentially correspond with a member of the State Bar of California. Existing regulations adopted by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation permit an inmate to make a confidential call, as defined, with the inmate’s attorney only as approved on a case-by-case basis by the institution head or their designee, as specified.

This bill would require the department to approve either an inmate’s or an attorney’s request to make confidential calls, as specified. The bill would require the department to provide the inmate at least 30 minutes once per month, per case, to make those calls, unless the inmate or attorney requests less time.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 5058.7 is added to the Penal Code, to read:

5058.7.

 (a) The department shall approve an inmate’s or attorney’s request, whomever the institution designates to make the request, to make request to have a confidential call. call with the inmate that they represent. The approved confidential call shall be at least 30 minutes once per month, per inmate, per case to make confidential calls, case, unless the inmate or attorney requests less time.

(b) For purposes of this section, “confidential call” means a telephone call between an inmate and their attorney that both the inmate and attorney intend to be private.