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Effective Assistance of Counsel in the Digital Era Act

Official title: A bill to regulate monitoring of electronic communications between an incarcerated person in a Bureau of Prisons facility and that person's attorney or other legal representative, and for other purposes.

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What This Bill Does

This bill requires the Department of Justice to issue a report regarding, establish guidelines for, and create or modify a program or system through which an incarcerated person may send or receive an electronic communication that excludes from monitoring the contents of any privileged electronic communication between the incarcerated person and his or her legal representative. Attorney-client privilege shall apply to electronic communications sent or received through this program or system.

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Timeline

  1. Library of CongressIntroduced in Senate
  2. SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
  3. Introduced
  4. Committee

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