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Iowa Qualified Immunity Law Lets County Off the Hook for Guard’s Sex Abuse of Jail Detainee
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2024
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2024, page 51
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Qualified Immunity,
Immunity - Absolute and Qualified.
Location:
Iowa.
Although a guard was fired from Iowa’s Polk County Jail for forcibly kissing and touching him while detained there, Justin Mowry’s lawsuit for damages against the county was dismissed on June 20, 2024. Fifth Judicial District Court Judge Lawrence P. McClellan ruled that Mowry’s complaint failed to clear a pleading ...
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