Legal Opinion
Bull v. City and County of San Francisco
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 9, 2010No. 06-15566, 05-17080PublishedCited by 269 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IKUTA, Circuit Judge:
The San Francisco Sheriffs Department oversees six county jails in the San Francisco Bay Area, through which approximately 50,000 individuals are booked and processed each year. To address a serious problem of contraband smuggling in the jail system, Sheriff Michael Hennessey instituted a policy requiring the strip search of all arrestees who were to be introduced into San Francisco’s general jail population for custodial housing. In a class action lawsuit challenging this policy on its face, a district court held that it violated the Fourth Amendment rights of the…
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