Top 2. What is the lawsuit about?
This lawsuit involved the former policy and/or practice of the San Bernardino County Jail of strip searching the following categories of inmates without reasonable suspicion that they possessed weapons, drugs or contraband: • arrestees who were transferred from a local jail to a main jail before they were arraigned, • federal inmates who were transferred to the San Bernardino County Jail, • inmates transferred from another jail to San Bernardino County to be arraigned on charges there, and • inmates who had appeared in court and became entitled to release after their appearance. In addition, it involves inmates of the San Bernardino County Jail who do not fit into the above categories but were strip searched in a group rather than individually.
