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

Heading: Strip Searches upon Returning from Court Appearance (CR Group)

Text: Further, Plaintiffs allege the Jail has a policy whereby detainees who have been ordered released by a judge in state court are returned to the Jail following their court appearance instead of being released from the courthouse. Upon their return to the Jail, these detainees are subjected to blanket strip searches and booked back into the Jail's general population while the Record Rooms staff checked for other warrants or holds and processed their release. [15] The CR Group Plaintiffs, Evans and Wolf, allege they were subjected to blanket strip searches upon returning to the Jail after their court appearances. Unlike the AL Group Plaintiffs, the CR Group Plaintiffs were immediately booked upon entering the Jail and thus were already strip searched once before. [16] The CR Group Plaintiffs allege that, while in transit to and from the Jail and while at the courthouse, they were under constant supervision and were not permitted to have contact with anyone other than the Sheriff's deputies and their attorneys. According to the Complaint, the detainees' visits with their attorneys while at the courthouse were subject to supervision by the Fulton County Sheriff's deputies.