Augustin v. Nassau County Sheriff's Department

SUMMARY ORDER

Plaintiffs are a class of persons “arrested on misdemeanor charges unrelated to weapons or drugs and thereafter strip searched, without individualized suspicion,” at the Nassau County Correctional Center (the “NCCC”), in accordance with a “blanket policy” in effect at NCCC prior to 1999. See In re Nassau Cty. Strip Search Cases, 461 F.3d 219, 222-23 (2d Cir.2006). In Shain v. Ellison, 53 F.Supp.2d 564 (E.D.N.Y.1999), a district court in the Eastern District of New York held that this policy violated clearly established Fourth Amendment law. We. affirmed, explaining “that persons…