The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Alaska Department of Corrections; State level · Alaska
- Level
- State
- Authority
- AS 33.30.011
- Issued
- 2020-03-13 Mar. 13, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-13 (visiting); 2020-03-18 (contract services); 2020-03-24 (screening; lobbies closed) (read as 2020-03-13)
- End
- Continued through 2020. (read as 2020-10-29)
- In force
- Mar. 13, 2020 to Oct. 29, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q4
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capCourts and public officesWorkplace rulesOther
- Addressees
- visitors, volunteers, attorneys and tour groups
- all contract-service providers other than essential contractors
- employees and essential contractors (shift screening)
- the public (lobbies; bail payments)
- Functions reached
- EMP 'contract services' suspended statewide; essential contractors screened every shift
- VS visitors
- VL volunteers and chaplaincy (limited)
- CR attorneys and bail bond agents (lobbies closed; in-person bail suspended)
- CB
- Collection
- State corrections, emergency management and Guard AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD
Operative words
Effective 3/13/2020, all visiting at institutions statewide has been temporarily suspended. This includes outside volunteers, attorneys and other tours and groups who routinely come into the institutions. Effective 3/18, all non-essential activity at all institutions statewide including contract services have been temporarily suspended. Limited chaplaincy services remain at each institution.... Effective 3/24, all DOC Facilities statewide are to screen all employees and essential contractors at the start of every shift prior to entering the facility. Anyone with a temperature of 100.4F or higher, or anyone who chooses to refuse having their temperature checked will not be permitted into the facility.... Effective 3/24, all institutional lobbies will be closed to the public. As a result, in-person bail and in-person contributions to Offender Trust Account funds have been suspended at this time.
Enforcement
Commissioner's authority (AS 33.30.011); condition of entry
Notes
One of the clearest contractor instruments in the cluster: 'all non-essential activity at all institutions statewide including contract services' suspended Mar. 18, 2020, and the bail-bond trade shut out of the lobbies from Mar. 24.