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PCJF Helps Win $125K Judgment for Illegal Public Strip Search

Posted in Press Coverage · March 31, 2017 6:16 PM
PCJF Executive Director Mara Verheyden-Hilliard talks about the latest victory — a $125K judgment for a man who was publicly strip searched by a Laurel, MD police officer (who remains on the police force). The suit was a joint effort between PCJF and the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs.

Fox 5 DC: Man files lawsuit claiming Laurel police officer strip searched him in parking lot

Posted in Press Coverage · August 03, 2015 8:44 AM
“When he pat me down, he went to my groin area two times … He opened my pants, pulled my pants, pulled my boxers down, looked at my private, then he told me, ‘Okay, you can go.’”

Baltimore Sun: Federal civil rights lawsuit filed against Laurel police

Posted in Press Coverage · August 03, 2015 8:29 AM
Laurel Police are facing a federal civil rights lawsuit charging an officer with publicly strip searching a man during a traffic stop

WBAL-TV (NBC): Suit alleges Laurel police officer illegally strip searched man

Posted in Press Coverage · August 03, 2015 8:28 AM
Officer Acol subjected Sergeant to two illegal frisks and searches and when no contraband was found, Sergeant was forced to stand in public where Acol stripped him.

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