Prison Rape Elimination Policy. CDCR maintains a zero tolerance for sexual misconduct in its institutions, community correctional facilities, conservation camps and for all offenders under its jurisdiction. All sexual misconduct is strictly prohibited. CDCR is committed to providing a safe, humane, secure environment, free from sexual misconduct. This will be accomplished by maintaining a program to ensure education/prevention, detection, response, investigation and tracking of sexual misconduct and to address successful community re-entry of the victim. All Contractors and their employees are expected to ensure compliance with this policy as described in Department Operations Manual, Chapter 5, Article 44. If you are providing services for the confinement of our inmates, you and your staff are required to adopt and comply with the PREA standards, 28 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 115 and with CDCR’s Department Operations Manual, Chapter 5, Article 44, including updates to this policy. This will include CDCR staff and outside audit personnel (who also conduct PREA audits of state prisons) conducting audits to ensure compliance with the standards. As a Contractor with CDCR, you shall not assign an employee to a CDCR facility or assign an employee to duties if that employee will have contact with CDCR inmates, if that employee has 1) engaged in sexual abuse in a prison, jail, lockup, community confinement facility, juvenile facility, or other institution (as defined in 42 U.S.C. 1997); 2) been convicted of engaging or attempting to engage in sexual activity in the community facilitated by force, overt or implied threats of force, or coercion, or if the victim did not consent or was unable to consent or refuse; or 3) has been civilly or administratively adjudicated to have engaged in the activity described in this section. The Contractor shall conduct a criminal background records check for each contract employee who will have contact with CDCR inmates and retain the results for audit purposes. By signing this contract the Contractor agrees to ensure that all of the mandates of this Section 5: Prison Rape Elimination Policy are complied with. Material omissions, by the contract employee, regarding such misconduct or the provision of materially false information, shall be grounds for removal from institutional grounds. Contract employees, who have contact with inmates, shall be provided training via the Exhibit titled; “PRISON RAPE ELIMINATION POLICY, Volunteer/Contractor Informational Sheet” to learn their responsibilities under the agency’s sexual abuse and sexual harassment prevention, detection, and response policies and procedures. A copy of this signed informational sheet will be provided to the institution before a contract employee may have contact with inmates. Any contract employee who appears to have engaged in sexual misconduct of an inmate shall be prohibited from contact with inmates and shall be subject to administrative and/or criminal investigation. Referral shall be made to the District Attorney unless the activity was clearly not criminal. Reportable information shall be sent to relevant licensing bodies.
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Prison Rape Elimination Policy. CDCR maintains a zero tolerance for sexual misconduct in its institutions, community correctional facilities, conservation camps and for all offenders under its jurisdiction. All sexual misconduct is strictly prohibited. CDCR is committed to providing a safe, humane, secure environment, free from sexual misconduct. This will be accomplished by maintaining a program to ensure education/prevention, detection, response, investigation and tracking of sexual misconduct and to address successful community re-entry of the victim. All Contractors Each party and their its employees are expected to ensure compliance with this policy as described in Department Operations Manual, Chapter 5, Article 44. If you are either party is providing services for the confinement of our y o u t h o r inmates, you that party and your staff are required to adopt and comply with the PREA standards, 28 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 115 and with CDCR’s Department Operations Manual, Chapter 5, Article 44, including updates to this policy. This will include CDCR staff and outside audit personnel (who also conduct PREA audits of state prisons) conducting audits to ensure compliance with the standards. As a Contractor with CDCR, you Neither party shall not assign an employee to a CDCR facility or assign an employee to duties if that employee will have contact with CDCR inmates, if that employee has 1) engaged in sexual abuse in a prison, jail, lockup, community confinement facility, juvenile facility, or other institution (as defined in 42 U.S.C. 1997); 2) been convicted of engaging or attempting to engage in sexual activity in the community facilitated by force, overt or implied threats of force, or coercion, or if the victim did not consent or was unable to consent or refuse; or 3) has been civilly or administratively adjudicated to have engaged in the activity described in this section. The Contractor shall conduct a criminal background records check for each contract employee who will have contact with CDCR inmates and retain the results for audit purposes. By signing this contract contract, the Contractor agrees parties agree to ensure that all of the mandates of this Section 5: Prison Rape Elimination Policy are complied with. Material omissions, omissions during a background check by the contract employee, a party’s employee regarding such misconduct or the provision of materially false information, shall be grounds for removal from institutional grounds. Contract employees, who have contact with inmates, shall be provided training via the Exhibit titled; “PRISON RAPE ELIMINATION POLICY, Volunteer/Contractor Informational Sheet” to learn their responsibilities under the agencyAny party’s sexual abuse and sexual harassment prevention, detection, and response policies and procedures. A copy of this signed informational sheet will be provided to the institution before a contract employee may have contact with inmates. Any contract employee who appears to have engaged in sexual misconduct of an a youth or inmate shall be prohibited from contact with youth or inmates and shall be subject to administrative and/or criminal investigation. Referral shall be made to the District Attorney unless the activity was clearly not criminal. Reportable information shall be sent to relevant licensing bodies.
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