Women File Class-Action Lawsuit over SF Jail Strip Searches

20 women sue SF sheriff after alleged mass strip search ‘for training’

Numerous women who were detained in the San Francisco County Jail have accused the department of violating their rights after being subjected to a mass strip search.

20 Women Sue San Francisco Sheriff After Alleged Mass Strip Search 'For ...

Women file class-action lawsuit over SF jail strip searches

Twenty women who say they were subjected to degrading strip searches as San Francisco jail inmates while male deputies were nearby — filed a civil rights lawsuit Friday, a year after the incident.

20 Women Sue SF Sheriff’s Office Over Alleged Mass Strip Search

The lawsuit accuses Sheriff Paul Miyamoto and individual deputies of “a pattern” of degrading behavior and of violating the women' s constitutional rights.

SF sheriff’s deputies sued for allegedly recording women during strip search

A group of 20 women called the incident degrading and claimed it violated their civil rights and right to privacy.

‘Prey upon the vulnerable’: Women break silence on alleged SF jail strip search in new lawsuit

A crowd of civil rights activists rallied outside a San Francisco County Jail on Friday after 20 women filed a federal lawsuit accusing deputies in the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office of conducting an illegal strip search inside a women’s jail unit last year. “We are here for, today, the women who were in this jail behind us, whose rights were violated when they were mass strip searched by sheriff’s deputies one year ago,” said San Francisco Publ…