1. (a) Maximum concern for the youth's privacy and personal dignity.
2. (b) Only those staff required to conduct the search and to assure health and safety of the youth shall be present.
3. (c) Only staff who are employed in peace officer classifications and who are of the same sex as the youth or who are licensed medical personnel, shall be present or participate in a skin search.

When there is reason to believe that a youth has contraband concealed upon his or her person, he or she may be required to remove his or her clothing and submit to a skin search. Such searches shall be conducted with:

Note: Authority cited: Section 1712, Welfare and Institutions Code. Reference: Sections 1001, 1001.5, 1002, 1004 and 1752, Welfare and Institutions Code; and Section 4502, Penal Code.

History

1. Change without regulatory effect adopting article 5 (sections 30955-30958) and renumbering title 15, section 4713 to title 9, section 30955 filed 2-13-2020 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2020, No. 7).