[directive] Page Attachment 1 -- COVID-19 Supplement to the Charge for Grand Juries Convening in a Virtual Format jury Note:  The standard grand charge (as promulgated by Directive #23-06) would be reissued with the following content: of  In a few minutes, we will begin the grand jury proceeding.  You already have signed an oath secrecy and sworn or affirmed that oath as applied for remote ( or video) proceedings.  I am now going to give you some important instructions.  It is critical that you follow these instructions so please listen carefully. or I direct that you must not allow other persons to see, hear, otherwise observe the grand jury in proceeding.  This means that you must be a private location and must take steps to maintain or your privacy, including shielding your computer tablet monitor so that others cannot see it and If using headphones or earbuds so that others cannot hear the grand jury proceeding.  despite your best efforts someone comes into the room or becomes able to observe the proceeding, you if must tell the prosecutor immediately.  You also must tell the prosecutor you have a technical jury problem and are unable to see or hear the grand proceeding.  We will take breaks during this process, including to move from one matter to another, which is different in a virtual setting than in person.  I direct that you must not discuss this case among yourselves or with anyone else during those or any other recesses.  You must not communicate or of share information about the case.  Recess means breaks, as well as when you finish and log out the Zoom meeting.  You are not permitted to discuss anything about this case with your fellow of jurors, or with anyone else.  Once you are instructed to begin your deliberations in the privacy the grand jury room, that will be the first time you can discuss this case.  You may not have any discussions with anyone before then about this case or about anything related to the case.  of  So it is clear, when I mean you cannot discuss the case with anyone, I mean any the facts of alleged, the charges, where the crimes allegedly occurred, the names any witnesses, and even the grand jury selection process.  And discuss means communicate.  The word communicate means something far different today than it did a few years ago.  I am sure you understand what I am referring to.  Communication includes any way in which you can share information with of of am someone else.  It includes, course, all forms electronic communication.  So, not only I instructing you that you cannot discuss this case with anyone such as your fellow jurors as well as your friends, family members and co-workers, but you can also not call them, text them, email them, or communicate with them in any way about anything connected to this proceeding, of of including through any form social media.  I realize that there are numerous forms social media, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Periscope, TikTok, Tinder, Tumbler, Snapchat, of Pinterest and the like, and that many you utilize social media on a regular basis.  You may not communicate with an~one via social media about the grand jury process.  The only exception to this strict rule is that you may tell family members or a supervisor or co- of worker about the length and schedule the grand jury sessions, but not about anything else related to the matters presented, including the charges.  Supplement to Directive #23-06