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Effective Assistance of Counsel in the Digital Era Act

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This bill says the Department of Justice must study and set up rules for a system that lets people in prison send and receive electronic messages with their lawyers without those messages being monitored. It requires that attorney-client privilege, which normally protects private conversations between a person and their lawyer, also applies to these electronic communications.

Introduced

February 11, 2026

Policy Area

Crime and Law Enforcement

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