Strip-Search Case a Class-Action

A federal judge has approved class-action status for a suit by as many as 2,000 women who claim they were illegally strip-searched after being arrested in San Mateo County in 2002 and 2003.


The San Mateo suit was filed in April by Shannon Gallagher, who was arrested in Pacifica in July 2003 on a San Francisco warrant for allegedly driving with a suspended license. Gallagher said she was strip-searched when she was booked into jail in Redwood City, and again several hours later when she was taken to the county's main jail for women. The charges against her were later dropped.

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