The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department is grappling with how to safeguard inmates’ private information when they begin to use tablets behind bars for the first time next year.
According to a recent report from Sheriff Laurie Smith to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors’ Public Safety and Justice Committee, officials are struggling to protect private information inmates send on tablets during conversations with attorneys, clergy and physicians. Smith, along with officials from the Public Defender’s Office, are working to create protocols to ensure those conversations remain confidential through immediate deletion.
