Policy Text
KERN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
Detentions Bureau
Policies and Procedures
TITLE: LIBRARY SERVICES G-500
EFFECTIVE: REVIEWED: REVISED: UPDATED:
June 30, 1990 07-11-24 07-11-1994 07-11-24
APPROVED BY: Detentions Bureau Chief Deputy Cindy Cisneros
REFERENCE: Title 15, Section 1064, C.C.R.
POLICY
Incarcerated people will be allowed access to books and periodicals from the facility
library. Each incarcerated person will be allowed no more than two (2) books and two (2)
periodicals from the facility library in their possession at any one time. Library books and
periodicals will be distributed by officers as their duties permit.
Books and periodicals may be accepted by the facility as donations from civic groups.
Those books become the property of the Detention Bureau. Periodicals from the publisher
may be accepted. Individuals cannot bring books or periodicals to incarcerated people
without the approval of the Division Commander or Shift Supervisor.