Legal Visits at Kay County Detention Center: Confidential Meetings, Hours, and Documents

The facility cannot require an A-number before allowing a legal service provider to visit. If you don't have it, provide other identifying information instead. The facility must make a good-faith effort to locate the detainee based on what you give them.

Legal meetings come with privacy protections. Visits between a detainee and legal representatives (or legal assistants) are confidential. Staff cannot listen in on these conversations.

Confidentiality isn't just a courtesy. It's part of the standard for legal access. Legal visits between legal service providers (or legal assistants) and a detainee must be confidential and free from auditory supervision. The facility must also provide private consultation rooms for these meetings, giving you a proper setting for attorney-client communication.

Bringing paperwork? Staff can inspect documents or other written materials you provide to the detainee, but they cannot read them. The detainee can keep legal materials received during visits for personal use. This matters when they need to review filings, evidence, or instructions after the meeting.

• ✓ Staff may inspect documents or written material given to a detainee during a legal visit.
• ✓ Staff may not read the legal documents you provide.
• ✓ The detainee is entitled to retain legal materials received during visits for personal use.

ICE detention standards require legal visitation access throughout the week. The facility must permit legal visits seven days a week, including holidays. On regular business days, expect a minimum of eight hours. Weekends and holidays require at least four hours.

You should be able to see the rules in writing when you're on site. The facility must post rules and hours for legal visitation prominently in the visiting room. If something about scheduling or access feels unclear, check that posted information.

1. Plan for access every day of the week - Legal visitation must be permitted seven days a week, including holidays.
2. Use the minimum-hour standards when you request time - The minimum is eight hours per day on regular business days, and four hours per day on weekends and holidays.
3. Check the posted rules when you arrive - The facility must notify and prominently post the legal visitation rules and hours in the visiting room, so you can match your request to what is posted.

Need information about a detainee at Kay County Detention Center? Call (580) 362-3393. The line is available 24 hours a day. Have biographical details ready so staff can identify the correct person: first and last name (including any hyphenated names), any aliases, the A-number if you have it, date of birth, and country of birth.

• ✓ Call (580) 362-3393 (available 24 hours a day) to get information about a detainee.
• ✓ Have identifying details ready: full name (including hyphenated names), aliases, A-number (if available), date of birth, and country of birth.
• ✓ If you do not have the A-number, legal service providers cannot be required to submit it as a condition of visiting.
• ✓ Provide other identifying information if needed. The facility must make a good-faith effort to locate the detainee based on that information.