Ventura County, California Settles Wrongful Arrest Class-action Suit for $350,000

Loaded on Sept. 15, 2012 published in Prison Legal News September, 2012, page 22

Filed under: Searches, Arrestee Searches, Wrongful Imprisonment, False Arrest. Location: California.

In September 2011, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office (VCSO) agreed to settle a class-action civil rights lawsuit alleging that innocent people had been jailed when VCSO officials failed and/or refused to use readily available technological means (such as fingerprint identification) to verify that people being booked into the Ventura County ...

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