Lester Olmstead-Rose letter

A letter from Community United Against Violence executive director Lester Olmstead-Rose to Deputy Attorney Hajime Tada regarding the case of Victoria Schneider v. City and County of San Francisco. Olmstead-Rose urges the release of the names of the officers involved in the incident in the name of accountability and urges the city to compensate Schneider for her ordeal. This item comes from the Victoria Schneider papers at the GLBT Historical Society. Schneider is an intersex activist and former sex worker best known for her 1997 lawsuit against the City and County of San Francisco, concerning an unlawful strip search during her booking at the San Francisco County Jail.

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Identifier: h415pb01c
Collection: Victoria Schneider Papers
Institution: GLBT Historical Society
Creator(s): Olmstead-Rose, Lester
Date Created: Feb. 3, 1998
Genre: Correspondence
Subject(s): Community United Against Violence (CUAV)
Hajime Tada
Strip searching
Victoria Schneider
Places: California > San Francisco County > San Francisco
Topic(s): Civil rights
Intersex people
Law
LGBTQ+ sex workers
Police harassment of LGBTQ+ people
Transphobia
Resource Type: Text
Language: English
Rights: In copyright
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