independently of the Attorney General and of any other unit or division within the Department of Justice and any other Federal agency. (b) Appointment The Attorney General, in consultation with the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice, Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the Department of Homeland Security, and Director of the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services, and after obtaining input and recommendations from community organizations that provide educational services and legal support to incarcerated persons or otherwise advocate for the rights of incarcerated people and an end to solitary confinement, shall appoint no less than 15 people to serve as members of the community monitoring body. (c) Membership Each member of the community monitoring body shall be a person who has survived solitary confinement, has had loved ones in solitary confinement or lost loved ones because of solitary confinement, is a faith leader, medical or mental health professional, or is a civil rights or human rights advocate. All members shall have had some experience engaging in advocacy, service provision, or program operation aimed at enhancing the rights and treatment of people incarcerated. No less than half of all members shall be people who have been incarcerated or have had family members incarcerated. (d) Membership term Members of the community monitoring body shall be appointed for a term of 5 years, with the possibility of 1 reappointment by the Attorney General for a total of 10 years. Each member shall be reimbursed by the Department of Justice for their per diem expenses in connection with service on the community monitoring body. (e) Assistance The community monitoring body shall have the ability to designate any person to assist the work of the community monitoring body. (f) Access Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the community monitoring body and its designees shall have the ability to make unannounced visits to Federal