$5 Million Jury Award in Strip-Search Case: Class-Action Suit Over a 10-Month Policy May Cost the City More

An article from the New York Times covering the Ciraolo v. New York City case, in which a jury ruled to grant damage awards to plaintiff Debra Ciraolo. In this case, the city did not concede liability but acknowledged that the strip searches were conducted by guards that had never been told of the legal requirement of reasonable suspicion before executing a strip search. 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: tx31qj18h
Collection: Victoria Schneider Papers
Institution: GLBT Historical Society
Creator(s): Weiser, Benjamin
Publisher: The New York Times
Date Issued: May 12, 1999
Genre: Clippings
Subject(s): Debra Ciraolo
Strip searching
Places: New York
Topic(s): Class actions (Civil procedure)
Intersex people
Law
LGBTQ+ sex workers
Police harassment of LGBTQ+ people
Transphobia
Resource Type: Text
Language: English
Rights: In copyright
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