Section 4020.8 Of Chapter 1. County Jails From California Penal Code >> Title 4. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 1.
4020.8
. No officer, deputy, jailer, keeper, guard, or person having
charge or control of any such county jail shall refuse the duly
appointed and qualified female deputy sheriff thereof, or other
suitable woman having the care of female prisoners, free access at
all reasonable times to the immediate presence of all female
prisoners therein, including the right of visitation and conversation
with them, or in such jail allow the searching of the person of a
female prisoner to be made except by the female deputy sheriff of
such jail or other suitable woman, or obstruct the performance by the
female deputy sheriff, or other suitable woman, of her official
duties.