Establishes parameters for conducting searches of transgender and intersex individuals in local jails, ensuring compliance with federal law.

The bill sets guidelines for searches of transgender and intersex individuals in local jails, ensuring compliance with federal law. It mandates that local jails develop policies and procedures for such searches, requiring staff of the opposite gender to announce their presence when entering a housing unit. Searches may only be conducted by an individual of a different gender in exigent circumstances. The inability to provide female correctional staff trained to perform searches does not justify a cross-gender search.

Establishes parameters for conducting searches of transgender and intersex individuals in local jails, ensuring compliance with federal law.

The bill sets guidelines for searches of transgender and intersex individuals in local jails, ensuring compliance with federal law. It mandates that local jails develop policies and procedures for such searches, requiring staff of the opposite gender to announce their presence when entering a housing unit. Searches may only be conducted by an individual of a different gender in exigent circumstances. The inability to provide female correctional staff trained to perform searches does not justify a cross-gender search.