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The record
- Jurisdiction
- California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and California Correctional Health Care Services; State level · California
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Penal Code §§ 5054, 5058; EO N-36-20
- Issued
- 2020-04-30 Apr. 30, 2020
- Effective
- Measures dated from Mar. 11, 2020 (visiting cancelled) and Mar. 20, 2020 (construction suspended); page as archived Apr. 30, 2020 (read as 2020-03-11)
- End
- Visiting remained suspended system-wide until limited in-person visiting resumed in April 2021; construction, screening and mask requirements continued into 2021 (see Ex. 009 for the Aug. 2, 2021 rules) (read as 2021-08-02)
- In force
- Mar. 11, 2020 to Aug. 2, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capFace-covering requirementHealth care ordersWorkplace rulesSupply chainOther
- Addressees
- all CDCR and CCHCS staff
- incarcerated population
- visitors and volunteers
- construction contractors working inside CDCR facilities
- rehabilitative program providers
- parolees and DAPO office visitors
- Functions reached
- JS construction contractors' job sites inside 35 prisons suspended
- VL volunteer and rehabilitative-program providers excluded
- EMP screening and masking of every vendor on institutional grounds
- SC PPE redirected among institutions; CALPIA output redirected
- HR peace-officer examinations and academies suspended through April 2020
- OP DAPO lobbies closed; parole hearings by video
- Collection
- State corrections, emergency management and Guard AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD
Operative words
On March 20, 2020, CDCR suspended large-scale construction projects located within the secure perimeter of CDCR facilities. Limited construction activities are continuing as necessary to make work areas safe and protect construction areas from deterioration during the suspension. While the construction industry overall has been identified as an essential business/service under Executive Order E-33-20, the interest of CDCR as a construction owner is unique.... The action to suspend large-scale construction projects was consistent with earlier preventive actions, such as the cancellation of visiting and volunteer entries statewide, and seeks to reduce and minimize the number of non-CDCR employees that enter CDCR institutions on a daily basis.... CDCR and CCHCS are requiring the use of cloth face coverings for both staff and the incarcerated population.... Staff working or performing duties on institutional grounds shall wear a cloth face covering at a minimum.
Enforcement
Departmental directives binding on staff and contractors as conditions of access to institutions (Penal Code § 5054; Cal. Code Regs. tit. 15, § 3170 et seq.); construction owner's suspension of contract performance
Notes
Construction firms (JS), rehabilitative and education contractors (VL, CL), hiring and testing vendors (HR), PPE suppliers (SC) and the visiting public (CB). Also records that in-state contract facilities halted visiting and that 1,928 inmates were transferred among institutions to create physical distancing (Apr. 29, 2020).