Sheriff's Office To Pay $3 Million For Invasive Searches Of 850 High School Students
Found on Techdirt on Monday, 20 November 2017
Over 800 students were searched without a warrant, subjected to invasive pat downs that included breasts and genitals by Sheriff Jeff Hobby and his deputies.
In October, Sheriff Hobby and two of his deputies were indicted for sexual battery and false imprisonment.
That number has nothing to do with the severity of the violations, but rather is the limit of the sheriff department's insurance policy.
Fair enough for an abuse of law at that scale.