You may have seen in the last couple of days that the FDOC has moved forward with the mail rule changes. If you have not been following this since last year, the FDOC plans to simply get rid of physical incoming mail, by having us send our mail to a third party who will use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and send it to our incarcerated loved ones through JPay.
This means the end of greeting cards, kids drawings, and much more, and they also limit the weight of our letters to ONE forever stamp.
This also means everything you will ever write will now be saved in a database.
You can read the full proposal here.
Please, make sure to request a public hearing on this matter before 6/8/2021.
Send email to: Jason.Holman@fdc.myflorida.com
Subject: Request for Public Hearing on Notice of Proposed Rule 33-210.101
You don’t need to write a lot, just explain that as someone who writes to people in the FDOC care you are directly affected by this rule under F.A.C. 120.536(3) and you want to request a hearing, preferably virtually and with a 14-day notice pursuant to 120.54(3)(a)3., where prison families will be allotted time to speak and the people responsible for the rule be available to answer questions and comments.
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