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Explanation of proposed bills: Notifications, visitor programs, and housing standards
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Council Member Nurse outlines several bills focused on improving notification procedures, establishing visitor programs, and refining housing standards for incarcerated individuals.
- Intro 412: Ensures notification of emergency contacts and attorneys for suicide attempts, hospitalizations, or serious injuries
- Intro 420: Establishes a comprehensive program for child visitors at DOC facilities
- Intro 423: Enhances investigation and notification procedures following deaths in custody
- Intro 625: Refines standards for gender-aligned housing and creates an appeals process
- Intro 735A: Requires reporting on sexual assault and harassment of correctional staff
- Intro 1023: Requires DOC to establish an online scheduling system for visits
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Intro 412, sponsored by council member wrestler, to ensure emergency contacts and an attorney of record are notified when a person in custody attempts suicide is hospitalized or is seriously injured.
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Intro 420, sponsored by council member Rivera, to establish a comprehensive program for child visitors at DOC Facilities.
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Intro423, also sponsored by council member Rivera, to enhance DOC investigation and notification procedures following the death of an individual in custody and a report on compassionate release.
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Intro 625, sponsored by counsel member powers to refine standards for how DOC must evaluate whether to put someone in gender aligned housing and create an appeals process to challenge housing decisions for transgender, gender nonconforming, non binary, and intersex individuals in custody.
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Proposed intros 735a, sponsored by council member Stevens, to require reports on sexual assault and sexual harassment of correctional staff, and ensure they have access to appropriate mental health resources.
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Intro 1023, sponsored by council member Gutierrez, to require DOC to establish, operate, and maintain an online scheduling system to facilitate visits to people in custody.