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UPDATE 7:
- This class action settlement is paying out $451 in a second round of payments.
UPDATE 6:
- Readers reported this settlement paying out more than $400 as of Jan. 26, 2022.
- Congratulations to everyone who filed a claim and got PAID!
UPDATE 5:
- The settlement will become effective Nov. 3, 2021.
- First payments are expected to be issued in two to three months.
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UPDATE 4:
- According to the settlement website, the Supreme Court petition will not be decided until October 2021 or later.
- Settlement payments will remain on hold until the petition for review is resolved.
UPDATE 3:
- On May 13, 2021, an objector filed a petition seeking review of the settlement by the U.S. Supreme Court.
- The settlement will not become effective until after the review request is decided.
- Top Class Actions will continue to provide case updates as they become available.
UPDATE 2:
- On Sept. 10, 2020, an appeal to the L.A. Womenโs Jail Strip Search Class Action Settlement was filed.
- Claims will not be paid until all appeals are exhausted.ย
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UPDATE:
- The L.A. Womenโs Jail Strip Search Class Action Settlement was granted final approval Aug. 11, 2020.
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The County of Los Angeles has agreed to pay a total of $53 million to settle class action allegations that women inmates were subject to degrading strip searches while entering or returning to the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif.
The settlement represents the largest payout in the countyโs history.
The Lynwood strip search settlement website notes that Class Members include those who were subjected to a strip search in a group outside of the bus garage while entering or returning from the Los Angeles Sheriffโs Department Lynwood Jail between March 5, 2008 and Jan. 31, 2015.ย
Lead plaintiffs claimed that thousands of inmates were subjected to unnecessary and violating strip searches. Plaintiff Jessica Almaraz alleged that she was strip searched a total of five times during her time at the Sheriff Departmentโs Century Regional Detention Facility.
According to the female inmates, women were often strip searched in groups. They say that they were forced to take off their clothes and be invasively strip searched in front of other women. Allegedly, deputies degraded them and yelled profanity during these searches.
The plaintiffs claim that this treatment violated their Fourth Amendment rights.
Eligible Class Members will be able to receive at least $200 for one strip search, while those who experienced numerous strip searches are likely to end up with thousands of dollars.
Inmates must complete and return a Claim Form to receive monetary recovery. According to the strip search class action, qualifying individuals should have received a Claim Form in the mail. Class Members may also compete a Claim Form online.ย
Class Members can exclude themselves from the settlement, or object to it by June 4, 2020. Those who excluded themselves from the settlement retain their right to pursue independent litigation over the strip searches, but waive their rights to claim benefits from this settlement.
Former inmates who do nothing will receive no benefits, and waive their rights to pursue independent litigation.ย
Class Members can also attend the final approval hearing on July 20, 2020, in which a judge will decide whether or not the settlement will be approved.
Whoโs Eligible
Individuals who were subjected to a strip search in a group outside of the bus garage while entering or returning from the Los Angeles Sheriffโs Department Lynwood Jail between March 5, 2008 and Jan. 31, 2015.ย
Potential Award
At least $200 and up to thousands of dollars.
No Class Member who files a claim will receive less than $200 (for one search under the least bad conditions). Persons with the highest number of searches โ up to 50 โ will likely receive thousands of dollars.
Proof of Purchase
N/A
Claim Form
NOTE:ย If you do not qualify for this settlement do NOT file a claim.
Remember: you are submitting your claimย under penalty of perjury. You are also harming other eligible Class Members by submitting a fraudulent claim. If youโre unsure if you qualify, pleaseย read the FAQ section of the Settlement Administratorโs website to ensure you meet all standards (Top Class Actions is notย a Settlement Administrator). If you donโt qualify for this settlement, check out our database of otherย open class action settlementsย you may be eligible for.
Claim Form Deadline
6/4/2020
Case Name
Mary Amador, et al. v. Sheriff Leroy D. Baca, et al., Case No. 2:10-cv-01649-SVW-JEM, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Final Hearing
7/20/2020
Settlement Website
Claims Administrator
Lynwood Strip Search Settlement
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PO Box 91070
Seattle, WA 98111
[email protected]
1-855-233-1237
Class Counsel
Barrett S. Litt
Lindsay Battles
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Colleen Flynn
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330 thoughts onL.A. Womenโs Jail Strip Search Class Action Settlement
The worse part to me is having homosexual women glare at you while being searched. It might as well be a man.
UPDATE PLEASEโฆ
How many times where you searched
Will some one please contact me. I need info,when can we expect to be paid.
its said payments will be sent out after May 13, 2021
I think they just updated that to July.
I just read something about October 2021 I think theyโre going to keep moving the dates around hoping we give up or something. Those deputies have been degrading women since sybil brand, twin towers, & now Lynnwood. I havenโt been to jail in 9 or 10 years but if they were to pay me for every strip search they made me do I could probably pay of my mortgage. Lol
The detainees are the ones who werenโt supposed to be searched as the inmates or the sentenced women did,,this settlement is for the detainees,,and the women that were already sentenced qualify for 200 bucks
We want our money!!
Gail
What i want to know is who is getting the interest on that 53 million that is just sitting in some bank. The lawyers? The county? You can bet its not going to be us. This is bullshit!!
Dont hold your breath , the amount will be 200 dollars for those who have under 50 searches ..it tells you in writing when you look up the settlement
Its says its only going to pay UP to 50 searches. NO MORE THAN 50
Iโm not agreeing with you ,they will go based on lack of privacy and most important if you were a detainee, thatโs what this settlement is all about that the detainees werenโt supposed to be treated as inmates ,,,for the women that were already sentenced and were searched under 50 times will qualify for 200 dollars
No if you were searched once during the time of dates they set then you get paid $200 and if you were searched more than once depending on how many times it could add up to thousands. So Iโm guessing $200 per damn search. One search compensation for the torment and humiliation should be thousands not no damn $200
I WANT TO KNOW WHY THE LAWERS ARE NOT WORKING ON THE PAY OUT NOW. THEY HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO GET THAT DONE BEFORE MAY AND IF SOMETHIBNG CHANGES IT WILL BE EASIER TO FIX. THEY ARE GETTING PAID. WHEN THIS IF FINAL IN MAY, THEY SHOULD HAVE THE BREAKDOWN DOWN AND CHECKS READY TO GO. THEY ARE GETTING 18 PLUS MILLION
I was in Lynnwood in 2009 . Was my first time locked up n let me tell ya these were the most degrading . Hateful Nd down right cruel people Iโve ever met . As well as being stripped n made to face 50 other women we were watched by men as well. This happened everything we left n came back for court too. They would scream in ur face call u discussing. Fate . Ugly. Nasty worthless n pretty much anything degrading they could think up as well as look for any reason to give u a hard time . I remember some guards would tell us we couldnโt even look at them . Would make u pull ur tampon out n throw it in the center of the floor in front of 50 other people. Called us names . And the list literally goes on and on . This place needs to go down. Its a true hell hole
Yep! FKN ASS FKS!! I was there then too- 2009!! The WORST EVER!! A BUNCH OF BITCH ASS DUDE-ETS AS DEPUTYS! MEAN!! slamming inmates face into wall if you talk , AND hog-tie! Ive seen it all!! Sooo degrading! I AM SO HAPPY THEY ALL GOT FIRED!! KARMA!! ALL BIG headed and took advantage of their position, and didnt they would get caught!! Thank God! AMEN!!!! SIGNED: # V***500!!!!
OH, AND BY THE WAYโฆ.$200 PP?? AINโT SHIT WHEN YOUโVE EXPERIENCED THIS SHIT!!! IT SHOULD BE WAAAAY MORE! WE SHOULD GET THE HIGHER PERCENTAGE PER PERSON VERSUS THE LAWYERS!! SHARKS!!! #V***500 !!!!
I remember the first time this happen to me I was there for a traffic ticket and because they found a Iโd in my car that belonged to the person who had sold me the car which I had no ideal was there I went to Lynwood and on that day alone forced to take off all my clothes and I was on my period they made me pull out my tampon and throw it in the middle of the area which was outside where there spray canned numbers on the ground where they would call you out by that number to degrade you and yell out โ look this one has blood running down her leg the made us spread our vaginas so the could take a flashlight and look in there and if you didnโt do it right the made you do it over again I along with a few other girls cried of how humiliated we felt and this is supposed to be our country and they treaded us so horrible I had been forced to do this over and over and over againy the let me go for some reject charges
Update:
On August 11, 2020, the Federal District Court approved the Settlement in this case. On September 10, 2020, a former Class Member filed an appeal challenging the decision to approve the Settlement. The Court dismissed the appeal on February 12, 2021. The Settlement will not become effective until May 13, 2021 at the earliest and payments will be sent as soon as possible after that time. Once the Settlement becomes effective, it will take two to three months to process claims, calculate the amount due to each Class Member and begin payments. Additional updates will be posted as they become available.
Address updates can be emailed or mailed to the Settlement Administrator. You may email your request to [email protected] or you may complete the form on the Contact Us page. Please include your old mailing address along with your request for verification purposes.
You have to go to the website
We are never going to get the money and the appeal will never make it to court .
Dont hold your breath on this crap this will take years to finalize any kind of crap
Your right but the update is she lost already and if you go to the web page for the lawsuit its updated and now there saying its going to take 2 to3 months to start sending out payments all this time she wasted now they have too start over calculations
What is the web site
Thanks, I will look into that
This bullshit the lawyrrs already got paidโฆ.makes no scence they just dont want to pay it they maybe dont have the koney they all just stealing from us fuk this ..that bs ..we waitited long enought ima start a petition just becuase soke of us dont know so much about this โฆor how to go about it doesnt mean they just can waste time ima start pushing becuase im shure if it was other way around they would have no time to waste โฆpls reply reply with ur emails i will start to make a voices be herd this is bs โฆ Im sick of people who are set to protect human rights dont we need to fighht now!!! I tried to call the people who are basicaly fighting. For us for info noithing i tlked to the young lady she dont know a daam thing she just reads what is said on the website like why js the number ther for us to call when they dont help u out on noithing then ther company they dont have no offices in california or near they said so this bs. They have one in Seattle an i even emailed them the women who is the one fighting the case ms whites or somthing have not herd anything an i emailed her couple times soo yeah they just wassting the oney because rememebr it said available money left is whats getti g paid the longer it takes the more these stupid lawyers get paid for the time..by then we aint getting shit..why do they get paid first if it wasnt for us they wouldnโt have this job..an they hired threw the same court people.the system this is wrong an its basaicly causing another lawsuit fraud โฆ Stealing they dong really want to go ther do theyโฆ ?!!!
The appeal was dismissed feb 12th
Its going to take longer than 3 months more like 6 months
So whatโs going and how will they let us when we are getting and how much
Has ANYONE received a check yet? The website information is SIX MONTHS OLD. Has anyone seen an Update โฆ anywhere?
Went we get the money
Everybody is getting 1500 bucks after they take more it will leave us with 1300 to 1000 bucks, Dont get your hopes up
Where did you see this?
Where did you see that information?
Hello??
Read the whole shit on the Lynnwood shit itโs 200 to 1400