Incarcerated Person Communications

Description

The Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Office, County Jail is seeking proposals from qualified vendors to provide both local and out-of-area telephone service, on and off site video visiting, and information services and correctional tablets to inmates of the Tuolumne County Jail.  The County is interested in a system that provides currently manufactured and technically supported brands and components.  The Sheriff’s Office will require on premise recording and monitoring capability of all inmate telephones and on closed circuit inmate video visitation telephones. California law and federal law provide specific employment restrictions for retirees and/or current County employees that desire to contract with the County.  For CalPERS retirees: if the work you will perform as a contractor is the same or similar to work you performed as an active employee or is work that is performed by active employees, it is most likely subject to the PERS retired annuitant restrictions, meaning the employment is disallowed and the County will not be able to enter into a contract with you.  For current County employees: California and federal law prohibit a current employee from contracting with its employer while being an active employee.  If an employee is interested in becoming an independent contractor, the employee must consider separati