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IPP Practice Advisories

DCYF Must Pay Costs of Parent-Child Visits and Contact Including Travel

Incarcerated parents often experience barriers to contact visitation and other forms of contact with their children. This happens even when child-friendly visitation settings are available at their facility. One of those barriers ...

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Black and Indigenous Children and Families Are At Heightened Risk of Harm In WA’s Family Policing System

This research memo is intended for any practitioners needing to document for or to educate judicial officers or other systems stakeholders about the heightened risks of childhood abuse and violence and other harms experienced by s...

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Carceral Agency Denial of Visits

This practice advisory is intended to describe the legal rights and jurisprudence governing how carceral agency employees act to infringe partially or fully upon incarcerated parent-child relationships, either on a temporary or pe...

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Attorney’s Legal Staff Are Entitled to Confidential Communications With (Prospective) Clients

This practice advisory is for attorneys and their staff, representing people who are incarcerated or detained, and who may be entitled to court appointed counsel or may qualify for free or low-cost legal representation in criminal...

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Understanding the Attorney-Client Privilege – RCW 5.60.060(2)

It is for attorneys and their staff, who represent people who are incarcerated or detained, and who may be entitled to court appointed counsel or may qualify for free or low-cost legal representation in criminal and certain civil ...

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Practical Tips for Criminal Defenders with Parents Facing Incarceration

This practice advisory describes some quick tips parents, who have been ordered to serve a sentence at Washington State Department of Corrections (“DOC”), may need to consider before they go to serve their sentence at DOC.

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Things to Know About the Individual Technology Services Pilot Program at WA DOC

This practice advisory is for attorneys representing people at the Washington Department of Corrections (“DOC”), who are participating in the Individual Technology Services (“ITS”) pilot project and seek telephone calls wi...

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Invoking the Fifth (5th) in a Dependency Case

This practice advisory is for dependency court practitioners representing parents, who are criminally charged or under criminal investigation for their past behaviors that may constitute abandonment, abuse or neglect, or parental ...

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Protecting Prudent Parent Placements

This practice advisory is for attorneys representing incarcerated parents in child custody proceedings that allege abandonment, child abuse, and/or child neglect.

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Vacating Orders of Termination on Behalf of Incarcerated Parents

This practice advisory is for incarcerated parents, who have had a default Order of Termination of the Parent-Child Relationship entered against them for a variety of reasons and the attorneys, who endeavor to represent them in CR...

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