Advocates are calling for an investigation into reports that more than a dozen women incarcerated at a San Francisco jail were strip-searched in front of male deputies and recorded on body-worn cameras, in violation of city policy.
At a rally on Monday outside the county jail on Seventh Street, attorneys and organizers urged officials to suspend the involved deputies while an investigation takes place, and called on the city to fund independent oversight over the sheriff’s department to protect incarcerated women going forward.
“It ends here,” said attorney Elizabeth Bertolino, who last week filed a government claim on behalf of 19 women who say they were searched. The complaint could be a precursor to a lawsuit against the city, according to San Francisco public defender’s office spokesperson Valerie Ibarra.
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