{"id":8530,"date":"2019-03-30T19:40:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T23:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=8530"},"modified":"2019-03-30T19:40:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T23:40:18","slug":"ca_visits_2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/30\/ca_visits_2019\/","title":{"rendered":"California policymakers renew the struggle for in-person visits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/scans\/AB964_Assembly_PublicSafety.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/AB964_Assembly_PublicSafety.png\" alt=\"comment letter\" style=\"border:#D3D3D3 2px solid\" width=\"250\" height=\"324\" class=\"right thumb250\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>For the past few years, California policymakers have been at hard work to <a href=\"\/blog\/2017\/09\/06\/california-hearing-visits\/\">protect in-person jail visitation<\/a> from sheriffs and private companies who are eager to replace crucial human contact with impersonal <a href=\"\/visitation\/\">video chats<\/a>. While legislators were successful in preventing jails who provided in-person visits in January 2017 from later eliminating them, jails that had already banned in-person visits are <a href=\"\/blog\/2017\/11\/20\/legislative_compromises\/\">permitted to continue their video-only policies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That could change this legislative cycle thanks to Assembly Member Medina&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB964\">AB 964<\/a>. AB 964 would require that all California jails provide in-person visits. Specifically, jails that are currently <a href=\"\/blog\/2017\/11\/20\/legislative_compromises\/\">exempted<\/a> would need to restore in-person visits by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Assembly Public Safety Committee will be voting on AB 964 on April 2. We submitted a <a href=\"\/scans\/AB964_Assembly_PublicSafety.pdf\">comment<\/a>, encouraging committee members &#8220;to recognize and support the positive role families play in rehabilitation&#8221; and, more importantly, that &#8220;human beings need in person visits.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California&#8217;s AB 964 would require in-person visits in all California jails<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[21],"class_list":["post-8530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phones","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8530"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8535,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530\/revisions\/8535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8530"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}