# COMAR Title 12 — Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services

## Subtitle 03 — Operations

### Chapter 03 — Incarcerated Individual Mail

#### Regulation .12 Additional Requirements of the Managing Official.

*COMAR 12.03.03.12*

A. A managing official shall ensure that employees who handle incarcerated individual mail are familiar with the requirements of this chapter.

B. A managing official shall develop a correctional facility mail security plan that, at minimum, addresses:

  (1) Risk assessment;

  (2) A plan to protect staff and other individuals from hazards that may be delivered in the mail;

  (3) Standard operating procedures;

  (4) Security screening procedures;

  (5) Training of mailroom staff;

  (6) Testing and preparedness responses to emergency situations;

  (7) Threat management; and

  (8) Annual reviews of a correctional facility’s mail security plan.