Happy Friday listmates: I'd love your assistance on two issues related to County jails, although I'm guessing the nature of the first issue would apply equally to state facilities. 1. Research/experience with what is a reasonable accommodation for wheelchair bound inmates who have a high security level. We had to transport an inmate from a state facility 6.5 hours away. The inmate is charged with a serious crime, requiring the highest security during transportation. In PA, our Sheriff transports inmates. They didn't have an ADA accessible and secure van at their use. I'm curious what others' experiences have been in this area. (As a sidenote, we did not end up using an accessible vehicle because the state DOC told us that the inmate wasn't "an ADA inmate" and the wheelchair was issued mostly for non-compliance. He apparently has an issue of getting out of the chair to commit assaults, sometimes even using the chair in the assault.) Nevertheless, I'm curious about what is a reasonable accommodation in for a high security inmate during transport. 2. For county facilities, do you have the same policies for your jails and those employees as the rest of the county? Think payroll, HR, attendance, etc. We've been experiencing some friction lately trying to apply county policies in the prison. I'd be interested in any research and/or policies you could share. I'm always available for a call on these issues. Thanks in advance! My direct dial is 610-344-6188. Best, Colleen Frens Colleen Frens She, her, hers County Solicitor County of Chester Solicitor's Office 313 W. Market Street, Suite 6702 West Chester, PA 19380 T 610.344.6195, F 610.344.5995 cfrens@chesco.org<mailto:cfrens@chesco.org> This email and any attachments contain information from the Solicitor's Office for the County of Chester and is intended solely for the use of the named recipient or recipients. This email may contain privileged attorney-client communications or attorney work product. Any dissemination of this email by anyone other than an intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you are not a named recipient, you are prohibited from any further viewing of the email or any attachments or from making any use of the email or attachments. If you believe you have received this email in error, notify the sender immediately and permanently delete the email, any attachments, and all copies thereof from any drives or storage media and destroy any printouts of the email or attachments. If you are the intended recipient, please check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses, as the County of Chester accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. In addition, emails sent or received by employees of the County of Chester are subject to the Pennsylvania Right-to-Know-Law (hereinafter the "Law"). Unless otherwise exempted from the Law, senders and receivers of emails shall presume that the emails will be released upon request and are subject to Commonwealth records retention requirements. This County of Chester e-mail message, including any attachments, is intended for the sole use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, nor authorized to receive for the intended addressee, you are hereby notified that you may not use, copy, disclose or distribute to anyone this e-mail message including any attachments, or any information contained in this e-mail message including any attachments. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete the message. Thank you very much.