Policy Text
Kern County Sheriff’s Office
Policies and Procedures
TITLE:
LEGAL ORDERS OF ISOLATION-SHERIFF’S
RESPONSE
NO: H-900
APPROVED:
Donny Youngblood, Sheriff-Coroner
EFFECTIVE:
August 4, 1993
REVIEWED:
10/20/2020
REVISED:
04/01/1996
UPDATED:
1/17/2018
H-900-1
POLICY
In accordance with Health & Safety Code Section 311, 3285 and in the interest of protecting the
safety of the community, the Kern County Sheriff’s Office will assist the Health Department in
the apprehension of persons who have a communicable disease and violate a lawful order of
isolation. Such cases will generally involve the isolation of persons with tuberculosis.
Whenever a person is legally ordered into isolation, by the Health Department, a copy of the
Order of Isolation, along with the patient description will be forwarded to the Kern County
Sheriff’s Office Communications Center to be placed on file there.
The Kern County Health Department will take every reasonable step to ensure that the person
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