{"id":38601,"date":"2019-07-16T14:55:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T19:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38601"},"modified":"2019-07-16T14:55:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T19:55:24","slug":"la-times-women-in-jail-endured-group-strip-searches-la-county-to-pay-53-million-to-settle-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38601","title":{"rendered":"LA Times: Women in jail endured group strip searches. LA County to pay $53 million to settle suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA Times: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-lasd-womens-jail-settlement-20190716-story.html\">Women in jail endured group strip searches. LA County to pay $53 million to settle suit<\/a> by Alene Tchekmedyinsta:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThey wanted to make us feel powerless,\u201d said Almaraz, who said she was strip searched five times during her two months in jail. \u201cWhatever they said went, even if it meant making it feel like you\u2019re not human.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A judge found the invasiveness of the strip searches \u2014 that the women had to expose their genitals in large groups, without any privacy \u2014 violated their Fourth Amendment rights. Now thousands of former inmates, including Almaraz, are eligible to collect a share of a $53 million settlement as part of an agreement filed Tuesday in a class action lawsuit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA Times: Women in jail endured group strip searches. LA County to pay $53 million to settle suit by Alene Tchekmedyinsta:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strip-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38602,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38601\/revisions\/38602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}