Civil Rights
Aug. 16, 2001
Supervisors Pay $27 Million to Settle Strip-Search Class Actions
LOS ANGELES - The county Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved paying $27 million to settle five class actions in which former inmates claim county sheriff's deputies illegally strip-searched, detained and arrested them using warrants that listed someone else's name.
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