The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Harris County, Texas (Sheriff's Office; Harris County Jail); county level · Texas
- Level
- County
- Authority
- Tex. Local Gov't Code § 351.041
- Issued
- 2020-03-13 Mar. 13, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-14
- End
- Until further notice (remote video visitation instituted; in-person visits did not resume in 2020) (read as 2020-12-31)
- In force
- Mar. 14, 2020 to Dec. 31, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q4
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering cap
- Addressees
- visitors to the Harris County Jail (about 9,000 inmates)
- attorneys (unaffected)
- Securus
- Functions reached
- VS visitors to the third-largest jail in the United States
- CB telephone and video vendors substituted
- Collection
- State corrections, emergency management and Guard AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD
Operative words
This week, Harris County was placed under a public health disaster declaration due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. To prevent the potential spread, the visitation to Harris County Jail will be suspended until further notice. The measures are being put into effect to protect our staff and inmates. The suspension will be effective, Saturday, March 14, 2020. Attorney-client interviews and other essential visits will not be affected.
Enforcement
Sheriff's authority over the jail (Tex. Local Gov't Code § 351.041); TCJS visitation variance
Notes
Ties the suspension to the county's public health disaster declaration of the same week.