Delaware County Sheriff does not have written policies to search attorney files

I have posted on this blog some time in September two recordings of my telephone conversations with Delaware County officials (State of New York).

One conversation was with the chief of correctional facility in the Delaware County Sheriff's Department claiming that the Sheriff's Department has a policy to search attorney's files when attorneys come to visit their clients who are held in jail.

The other conversation was with the Delaware County Attorney Porter Kirkwood who claimed he did not know of any policies.

On September 24, 2014, two days after I was not allowed to see my client in Delaware County jail because I refused to allow my attorney file to be searched, I made a FOIL request with the Delaware County Sheriff asking to provide me all written policies referring to search of attorney files.

I received recently an answer to that request indicating that there are no such written policies in existence.

Thus, when I was ordered by the jail guard to be searched, it was simply an oral directive from the jail authorities to do that, and not a follow-up on any written policy, as policies as important as that one have to exist in writing.

I am also waiting for Delaware County's response to my other FOIL request, where I am asking to provide copies of jail sign-in sheets showing names of attorneys who visited their clients since early September, 2014, and, if the attorneys were allowed to visit their clients, videotapes showing that attorney files of those particular attorneys were searched. 

I have a funny feeling Delaware County will devise a way of denying me that request... 

What a mess...