§ 4020.8

Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 643.

No officer, deputy, jailer, keeper, guard, or person having charge or control of any such county jail shall refuse the duly appointed and qualified female deputy sheriff thereof, or other suitable woman having the care of female prisoners, free access at all reasonable times to the immediate presence of all female prisoners therein, including the right of visitation and conversation with them, or in such jail allow the searching of the person of a female prisoner to be made except by the female deputy sheriff of such jail or other suitable woman, or obstruct the performance by the female deputy sheriff, or other suitable woman, of her official duties.

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