$2.75 MILLION SETTLEMENT WITH PROTESTERS OK'D.Byline: Troy Anderson Staff Writer The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district, the current members as of April 2006 are:
The protesters sued for civil rights violations, alleging they were held in jail after a judge ordered them released. The female protesters also alleged they were illegally strip-searched. The settlement puts Sheriff Lee Baca's department almost $1 million over its $12.6 million budget for settlements and legal judgments this fiscal year. The protesters were arrested by Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . officers on Aug. 15, 2000, and accused of reckless driving reckless driving n. operation of an automobile in a dangerous manner under the circumstances, including speeding (or going too fast for the conditions, even though within the posted speed limit), driving after drinking (but not drunk), having too many passengers in for blocking a Metrolink railroad track, Principal Deputy County Counsel Johanna M. Fontenot wrote in Claims Board documents. They were arraigned in court the next day, and the vast majority of them were ordered released with a return court date of Sept. 1. But they were released later at the jail instead of immediately at the courthouse. Under California law, a person arrested solely on a misdemeanor charge may not be strip-searched before arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted unless the arrest charge involves weapons, narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. or violence or if there is reasonable suspicion that the person is concealing a weapon or contraband. The county can also be held liable if the Sheriff's Department fails to release someone when a court orders it, officials said. |
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