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AB-2280 Jails: confidential calls.(2023-2024)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.

 Section 4034 is added to the Penal Code, to read:

4034.
 (a) A jail facility shall approve an attorney’s request to have a confidential call with the incarcerated person that they represent. The approved confidential call shall be at least 30 minutes once per month, per incarcerated person, per case, unless the incarcerated person or attorney requests less time.
(b) For purposes of this section, “confidential call” means a telephone call between an incarcerated person and their attorney that both parties intend to be private.
(c) This section does not supplant existing access between an incarcerated person and their attorney as of January 1, 2024, and shall not be construed as to infringe on the incarcerated person’s right to freely and confidentially correspond with their attorney or their staff in any other manner, including in-person visits and video conferencing.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit an incarcerated person’s access to their attorney and facilities shall take all reasonable means to facilitate an incarcerated person’s access to their attorney to the greatest extent possible.
SEC. 2.
 If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.