Woman to get $100K settlement in strip-search lawsuit against city of Las Vegas
The city of Las Vegas is settling a lawsuit with a woman whose constitutional rights were violated when she was strip-searched at the city’s detention center.
A federal judge in 2015 ruled corrections officers at the Las Vegas Detention Center violated Shimeka Graham’s constitutional rights when she was strip-searched after her July 2012 arrest.
The Las Vegas City Council approved a $100,000 settlement with Graham on Wednesday, without discussion.
Senior U.S. District Judge Kent Dawson ruled that the jail’s policy at the time of Graham’s incarceration, which had been to strip-search all inmates assigned to isolation cells, was unconstitutional.
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