Title 7 . Health and Social Services

Chapter 52 . (Reserved)

Section 260. Telephone calls

7 AAC 52.260. Telephone calls

(a) The superintendent shall establish procedures by which residents may periodically make phone calls of a personal nature. Residents must be allowed at least one phone call per week to their families, and unlimited phone calls to their attorneys insofar as is practicable given the availability of telephones and staff. Incoming calls to residents from parents must be limited only to the extent that they do not unduly interfere with use of telephones by other residents or with duties of the staff.

(b) Long-distance phone calls must be made collect. However, in unusual circumstances where a resident could not otherwise communicate with the resident's family, the superintendent may make money available to pay for one short phone call per week.

(c) Staff may not monitor resident phone calls, except when authorized by the superintendent, who may give that authorization only when the superintendent has reasonable grounds to believe that the telephone communication will result in a clear and present danger to the security of the facility or a victim or witness to the crime or to the welfare of the resident. In such cases, the superintendent shall prepare a brief memorandum stating the justification for this action, which must then be placed in the resident's file and a copy sent to the director. Before a resident's phone call may be monitored, a sign must be placed near the resident's telephone advising that the conversation is subject to being monitored if there exists reason to believe that the communication will result in a clear and present danger to the security of the facility or a victim or witness to the crime or to the resident's welfare.

History: Eff. 7/3/80, Register 74; am 1/14/2000, Register 153

Authority: AS 47.05.010

AS 47.14.010

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