(1) The bureau shall establish and post rules which specify regular telephone usage times and the maximum length of calls (not to be less than five minutes).

(2) Telephone usage hours shall include time during the normal work day and time during the evening, at least once a week per prisoner. Established social telephone usage hours shall not preclude reasonable access to a telephone to contact the prisoner’s attorney or legal representative.

(3) Calls shall be at the prisoner’s expense or collect. However, appropriate protection of access to an attorney shall be maintained for prisoners without funds.

(4) Calls are not private, unless made to a prisoner’s attorney. All calls will be recorded and may be monitored by the bureau. At the outset of all calls, an announcement shall notify the receiver of the call that the call is coming from a prisoner of Snohomish county corrections, and that the call will be recorded and may be monitored. The bureau shall develop and adopt policies and procedures that (1) provide for written notice to all prisoners that their telephone calls are not private, will be recorded, and may be monitored, (2) limit access to the recordings, (3) establish purposes for which recordings can be divulged, (4) provide for destruction of the recordings pursuant to an established schedule, and (5) prohibit the recording of any conversations between a prisoner and his or her attorney in order to protect the attorney-client privilege.

(5) Reasons for calls shall be the personal concern of the prisoner, except in consideration of requests for emergency calls beyond normal telephone hours. (Added by Amended Ord. 94-041, May 25, 1994; Amended by Amended Ord. 08-137, Nov. 10, 2008, Eff date Jan. 1, 2009; Amended by Ord. 09-128, Jan. 13, 2010, Eff date Jan. 29, 2010).