Women Against Registry: Call to Action Seminole County, Florida – Video visits replacing in-person visits.
Seminole County Jail inmates can no longer handle letters or pictures mailed by family and friends as a new system requires those incarcerated to view digital copies of their messages.
Under an agreement between the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office and Smart Communications Holding Inc., a Tampa-based company, the jail also plans to replace all in-person visits at the jail with a video-visitation system.
If you are in Seminole County please call your state senator and representative to express your concern about the rights of the families who have loved ones in this facility.
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Vicki Henry
Women Against Registry, President
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Inhuman
How much did this digitizing system cost taxpayers?
R family and friends going to be notified how to message the person they write to cause in pennsylvania letters go back to sender saying restricted plus books and stuff get sent back thats not really fair can give more information on that and why
During my 3 years in Incarceration I was blessed to have a large number of people that wrote on a regular basis. “Mail Call” was a daily excitement for many of us. I think that the SCSO is going to create more problems than they’ll solve by stopping mail. As far as the video visitation, unfortunately that’s a common practice with a lot of Florida counties.
This has been going on at the Brevard County Jail for quite awhile now.
Somehow, someway, this is an invasion of privacy. Those “video chats” police can edit/manipulate to pursue charges on non-existent crimes.
They tried that with my first Public Defender (video) and he told them to stuff it; that the discussion between him & me was private and NOT subject to “Invasion of privacy/ police monitoring confidential attorney/client privilege”.
They begrudgingly set up a face to face meeting between us. (Lawyer & myself)
The prosecution was PISSED and tried to say that, the interview was “discovery” and they were entitled to a copy of the recording.
The judge told the prosecution to pound sand.