Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Carlos G. Bolanos, Sheriff
Subject: Agreement with CML Security for Construction Services at the Maple Street Correctional Center (MSCC)
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing an agreement with CML Security to provide upgraded camera coverage of MSCC's Culinary Kitchen and construction upgrades of the inmate visiting areas to increase the number of attorney contact visiting rooms as well as inmate non-contact visiting rooms for the term of January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2018, in an amount not to exceed $118,000.
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BACKGROUND:
The completion of the Maple Street Correctional Center (MSCC) developed a visiting system that relied heavily on the use of Renovo inmate and attorney visiting videoconference machines and software to facilitate both public and attorney visits with inmates. As such, there were a limited number of contact and non-contact visiting rooms constructed within the facility.
Over the past nineteen months, it has become apparent that there is a need to increase the number of contact attorney visiting rooms and non-contact visiting rooms at MSCC and improve their sound dampening characteristics.
Collaboration with the Private Defenders' Program has identified this need as attorneys expressed their reluctance to utilize the Renovo machines based on attorney client privileges and the machines' overall impersonal contact. In using existing contact and non-contact visiting rooms, many attorneys and medical professionals have reported the need to increase the sound absorption/retention qualities to ensure attorney-client privileges and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance.
In addition to the upgrade of inmate visiting areas, the need for six additional 1080p security cameras providing coverage of the Culinary Kitchen at MSCC has also been identified. The kitchen is utiliz...
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