AD 2.17 Employee Conduct

16. Engaging in undue familiarity with inmates which includes, but shall not be limited to, the following:

a. any sexual contact between an employee and an inmate and/or person under the Department's supervision, or continuing sentence under the Department's supervision including but not limited to parole or community supervision;

b. sexualizing a situation without physical touching such as partaking in activities involving suggestive or pornographic photographs, suggestive or explicit letters or behavior which provides sexual gratification;

c. personal involvement in an inmate's private or family matters outside assigned professional duties;

d. performing personal favors for inmates outside assigned professional duties;

e. discussing with an inmate any matter pertaining to the inmate's crime(s) or the crime(s) of other inmates (except as required pursuant to official business);

f. discussing with an inmate personal and/or business matters of employees;

g. discussing security operations of a facility with an inmate; inconsistently enforcing facility rules to favor an inmate or group of inmates over other inmates or groups of inmates;

i. having personal work done by an inmate;

j. visiting, corresponding with or accepting telephone calls, personal notes or letters from an inmate who is under the custody of the Department (except for an immediate family member AND only when authorized in writing by the employee’s Unit Administrator and the Unit Administrator of the facility where the immediate family member is incarcerated);

k. housing an inmate who is under the custody of the Department (to include an inmate on community supervision), at the employee's home (except for an immediate family member AND when authorized in writing by the employee’s Unit Administrator and the Director of Parole and Community Services);

l. entering into a personal or business agreement with an inmate, including, but not limited, to acting as a bail bondsman for an inmate or providing the resources for the inmate to bond out without prior notification to the Unit Administrator; and, m. Transporting an inmate to an unauthorized location.

17. Engaging in behavior which is sexually, emotionally, or physically abusive or harassing toward the public, employees or inmates.