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EROIGSA- 15,0007 ATTACITNIENT 4; INCORPORATION OF DIIS PRE, A STANDARDS in his or hot, cell to perform bodily functions; requiring an innate detainee to expose his or her buttocks, genitals, or breasts; or taking images of all or part of a detainee's asked body or of a detainee performing bodily functions, P12PV1;NTTON PLANNING 115,11 Ze o tolerance of sexual abase, Prevention oy Sexnal Ascanit Coordinator (1) Bach facility shall have a writton policy mandating zero tolerance toward all farms of sexual abuse and outlining the facility's approach to preventing, deteotng, and responding to such conduct. The agency shall review and approve each facility's written policy. (2) Each facility shall employ or designate a Prevention of Soxual Assault Compliance Manager (PSA Compliance Manager) who shall serve as the facility point of contact for the ICE PSA Coordinator slid who has sufficient time and authority to oversee facility efforts to comply with facility sexual abuse prevention and intervention policies and procedures. 115,13, Detainee supervision and monitorine (1) Each facility shall ensure that it maintains sufficient supervision of detainees, including through appropriate staffing levels and, where applicable, video monitoring, to protect detainees against sexual abuse. (2) Each facility shall develop and document comprehensive detainee supervision guidelines to determine and meet the facility's detainee suporvision needs, and, shall reviow those guidelines at least annually. (3) In determining adequate levels of detainee supervision and determining the need for video monitoring, the facility shall take into consideration generally accepted detention and correctional Practices, any Judicial find {tags of inadequacy, the physical layout of each facility, the composition of the detainee population, the prevalence of substantiated and unsubstantiated incidents of sexual abuse, the findings and recommendations of sexual abuse incident review reports, and any other relevant factors, including but not limited to the length of time detainees spend in agency custody, (4) Each facility shall conduct frequent unannounced security inspections to identify and deter sexual abuse of detainees. Such inspections shall be implemented for night as well as day shifts. Each facility shall prohibit staff from alerting others that these security inspections are oeour ng, unless such announcement is related to the legitimate operational functions of the facility, 11.5,15 Limits to cross - ender Viewing and searrches. (1) Searches may be necessaay to ensure the safety of officers, civilians and detainees; to detect and secure evidence of criminal activity; and to promote security, safety, and related interests at immigration detention facilities. (2) Cross - gender pat -down searches of mate detainees shall not be conducted unless, after reasonable diligence, staff of the same gender is not available at the time the pat -down search is required or in exigent circumstances. (3) Cross - gander pat -dawn searches of female dotainces shall not be conducted unloss in exigent circumstances, (4) All cross- gondor pat -down searches shall be documented. (5) Cross- gendor strip searches or cross - gentler visual body cavity searches shall not be conducted except to exigent circumstances, including consideration of officer safety, or when performed by medical practitioners. Facility staff shall not conduct visual body cavity searches of juvonilos and, instead, shall refer all such body cavity searches of juveniles to a medical practitioner, 25G -73