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Los Angeles County Pays $2.75 Million for Illegal Strip Searches
Loaded on June 15, 2004
by John E Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2004, page 41
by John E. Dannenberg
Filed under:
Police Misconduct,
Searches,
Strip Searches,
Arrestee Searches,
Restraints.
Location:
California.
The County of Los Angeles settled
for $2.75 million the complaints of illegal strip searches and body cavity searches of female demonstrators at the Democratic National Convention in August, 2000, and the mistreatment and over detention of all plaintiffs. An additional settlement with the City of …
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