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EROIGSA -15 -0007, P49001 Attachment b - Transgender Care [Santa Ana Jail FACILITY] will comply with the followtng requirements related to the care and custody oftransgender detainees; Transgender Care 1) Intake: Upon arrival at the detention facility, intake personnel shall review the detainee's record and documentation. If the record indicates the detainee's gender identity differs from his/her biological sex, intake personnel shall only ask questions related to gender identity when such information is necessary to ensure the safety and security of other detainees and staff. In addition, the facility shall ensure that sensitive information, such as the detainee's gender identity, is not used to the detainee's detriment by facility personnel or other detainees: a) Intake personnel shall accurately record the detainee as transgender. The detainee shall be treated as a protective custody detainee for the duration of the intake process. b) The detainee shall be temporarily housed (i.e,, in a location away from the general population, to include in a medical unit or protective custody) until classification, housing, and other needs can be assessed by a Transgender Classification and Care Committee as delineated below, When feasible, the facility will initiate the review process within 72 hours (excluding holidays, and exigent circumstances and not to exceed 10 calendar days. In particular, placement into administrative segregation due to a detainee's identification as transgender should be used only as a last resort and when no other viable housing options exist. 2) Transgender Classiflcation and Care Committee a) The facility shall create and operate a Transgender Classification and Care Committee (TCCC). b) In facilities staffed, by the ICF Health Service Corps (IHSC): i) The TCCC shall be comprised of a dedicated facility medical representative, facility mental health representative, a facility classification supervisor, the Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERCi) Lesbian, Uay, Bisexual, Transgeadcr, and Intersex (LOOTi) Field Liaison, and a supervisory representative designated by the Field Office Director (FOD) (the supervisory representative from the CRCs FOD can be the ERO I. HTI Field Liaison), 11) The TCCC may utilize remote forins of communication (i.e., phone or video - teleconference) to facilitate meetings and other activities, c) For faellitles i t- tafl'ed by MSC: i) The TCCC shall include the IHSC Field Medical Coordinator (FMC), in addition to a dedicated facility medical representative, a facility mental health representative, 65A -39