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 agencies and Federal facilities, and have access to every area of every Federal facility and all nonclassified, nonprivileged data from every Federal agency. (g) In-Person interviews The community monitoring body and its designees shall have the ability to conduct in-person interviews and correspond and communicate with incarcerated persons and Federal agency and Federal facility staff freely, privately, and confidentially, upon consent of the incarcerated person or staff. (h) Meetings Administrators of each Federal agency and facility shall meet privately with the community monitoring body or its designees upon request. (i) Confidential communications (1) All people incarcerated in Federal facilities shall have the right and access to confidentially communicate with the community monitoring body and its designees, including while the community monitoring body or its designees are at a Federal facility and through free phone calls, free mail correspondence, and free email correspondence. These communications shall be afforded the same levels of protection, confidentiality, and privilege as attorney-client correspondence. (2) No person shall face any form of retaliation or adverse impact for having contact with, or being perceived to have had contact with, the community monitoring body or its designees. (3) An incarcerated person shall not be required to raise a complaint with the community monitoring body before seeking other remedies in connection with that complaint. (j) Electronic equipment The community monitoring body and its designees shall have the right to bring and use electronic equipment in any Federal facility, including video cameras, photographic cameras, audio recording devices, mobile telephones, computers, and tablets, for the purposes of