Opinion ID: 77779
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Strip Searches after Becoming Entitled to Release at the Jail (AL Group)

Text: According to the Complaint, the Jail's inmate management system is so inefficient that many persons committed to the Jail either post bond (or have someone post it for them) or are ordered released at First Appearance hearings at the Jail before their point-of-entry booking into the Jail has been started or completed. [13] Because these detainees were not booked immediately upon entering the Jail, they are subjected to the booking process  including the booking strip searches  after posting bond or having been ordered released at the Jail. Plaintiffs allege that, as a result, there is a practice of subjecting detainees who are to be released to booking strip searches before they are released from the Jail. [14] The AL Group Plaintiffs allege they were subjected to booking strip searches after having posted bond, in the case of Powell, or having been ordered released at a First Appearance hearing at the Jail, in the case of Matkin. It is not clear why Jail officials included the strip searches as part of the late booking process for the AL Group Plaintiffs given that they were to be released. However, we assume the AL Group Plaintiffs were strip searched because they were placed into the Jail's general population, where they were held while the staff in the Records Room checked for other detention orders, warrants, or holds and processed their release.