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$115,000 Settlement in Seattle Jail Strip-Search Suit
Loaded on May 15, 2000
by John E Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 24
by John E. Dannenberg
Filed under:
Searches,
Strip Searches,
Arrestee Searches,
Injunctions,
Municipal Liability.
Location:
Washington.
King County and the City of Seattle settled a wrongful strip-search suit for $115,000 on May 21, 2003 and also agreed to change strip-search policies at King County jails.
Jasmine Wells and Brian Walton, college students in Anchorage, Alaska, had come to Seattle on November 30, …
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