Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) is planning to expand its footprint into juvenile detention facilities. The tech giant is supporting a bill in California that seeks to ensure incarcerated youths have internet access.

AB 811 Bill

AB 811 is a bill that proposes all juvenile facilities in the state to provide teens with access to internet services as a way of maintaining relationships with their family members and friends. Sponsored by Assembly member Mariana Trench, the bill is set to go before committee on Public Safety and the Committee on Human Services for further deliberations.

Facebook’s policy head for western states, Ann Blackwood, says they are supporting the bill as a way of ensuring computer literacy among the teens as an education tool. Kids in the system will be able to send and receive unopened mail in addition to receiving confidential phone calls according to the bill. If passed, the bill will mark an important step in the State’s push to expand internet access for inmates.

“Computer literacy and the ability to communicate with technology are integral to living in today’s society. It has become difficult to imagine staying in touch with one’s family, searching for a job or conducting a number of daily tasks without access to the Internet,” Blackwood in a statement.

 Facebook Backing

The bill also proposes kids in foster care to have access to internet services as a way of fostering computer technology literacy. In 2015, more than 56,000 youths were in foster care in addition to 23,000 youths detained in secure facilities in 2014.

It does not come as a surprise that Facebook is backing the bill, given that the United Nations considers internet access, somehow, a “human right”. The tech giant joined the push to provide internet service to inmates two years ago, after coming under criticism for taking down inmates profile at the request of prisons department.

Facebook nowadays requires prison officials to provide sufficient information before any inmates profile is taken down from the networking app.

Facebook stock was down by 1.96% in Tuesday’s trading session to end the day at $150.58 a share.