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Ex. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-091 Context (guidance or announcement) Primary source read

CDOC, 'COVID Visitation Suspension' page (as archived Apr. 19, 2021)

All visiting suspended in all CDOC facilities (from March 2020), with video visiting substituted; still in force in April 2021

Colorado Department of Corrections (Executive Director Dean Williams) · Colorado Department of Corrections; State level (State)

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Jurisdiction
Colorado Department of Corrections; State level · Colorado
Level
State
Authority
C.R.S. § 17-1-105; AR 300-01
Issued
2020-03-13 Mar. 13, 2020
Effective
March 2020 through the April 2021 capture (read as 2020-03-13)
End
Limited in-person visitation criteria announced May 13, 2021 and opened at all facilities June 19, 2021; visitor vaccination requirement from Oct. 7, 2021 (Ex. 093) (read as 2021-05-13)
In force
Mar. 13, 2020 to May 13, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
Limitation types
Gathering cap
Addressees
  • visitors
  • inmates
Functions reached
  • VS visitors (thirteen months of total suspension)
  • CB video-visiting vendor substituted
Character
context
Collection
State corrections, emergency management and Guard AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD

Operative words

At this time, in order to best protect CDOC facilities, the Department of Corrections has suspended all visiting in our facilities. DOC understands that this will greatly impact the inmate population, but have made the difficult decision that the risk of a visitor potentially bringing COVID-19 into a facility is something that must be prevented to the extent possible. CDOC has implemented video visiting in all facilities and is providing all inmates in our custody one free 5 minute phone call per week

Enforcement

Executive Director's authority (C.R.S. § 17-1-105; AR 300-01)

Notes

Documents a visitation suspension still total in Q2 2021 (capture Apr. 19, 2021).

Retrieval note

Start date (Mar. 13, 2020) from the Department's own chronology; the page states the suspension without a date. brief sec. E wants the instrument's issue date); the slug date is the date of the Wayback capture (Apr. 19, 2021) of the CDOC page; the file was not renamed.

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