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Prisoner Facebook accounts will be disabled
2011-08-10
"Access to social media permits inmates to by-pass our monitoring process and continue to take part in criminal activity," California Dept of Corrections and Rehab secretary Matthew Cate recounted in a press release Monday. "This new collaboration between law enforcement and Facebook will help in protecting the community and most likely avoid future victims." CDCR related jail inmates are able to have Facebook profiles made before their incarceration but "if any proof shows the account has been utilized while in the facility, Facebook Security will disable the account." Facebook accounts set up or updated for an inmate will be reported to the Facebook Security Office and removed as a contravention of the social network's user policies. CDCR declared there were "numerous examples in which inmates, using their Facebook accounts, have delivered threats to victims or have made unwished-for sexual advances.".
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