A pre-trial detainee strip-searched in the county jail after having been arrested for public intoxication filed this case in 1991 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. On the defendants' motion for summary judgment, the District Court (Judge Cauthron) held that the County' ...
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A pre-trial detainee strip-searched in the county jail after having been arrested for public intoxication filed this case in 1991 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. On the defendants' motion for summary judgment, the District Court (Judge Cauthron) held that the County's policy of subjecting detainees arrested for traffic violations or other minor offenses to visual strip search at the discretion of police was unconstitutional on its face, making qualified immunity defense
unavailable.
The case concluded in a judgment for the plaintiff in the amount of $20,000.
Denise Heberle - 08/07/2012
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