Audits

William Scott Rogers – Lewis and Clark County Sheriff’s Office

Written by CBKN76

In 2018, William Scott Rogers, along with other plaintiffs, filed a lawsuit against the Lewis and Clark County Sheriff’s Office, alleging that individuals arrested for misdemeanors or traffic offenses were subjected to illegal strip searches at the county detention center. The suit claimed that detention center employees routinely required detainees to remove all their clothes and submit to visual inspections, sometimes including body cavity searches, without reasonable suspicion as required by state law. The plaintiffs sought compensatory and punitive damages, as well as injunctions to halt the practice. ([ktvq.com](https://www.ktvq.com/news/montana-news/2018/11/01/lewis-clark-county-sheriffs-office-sued-over-claims-of-improper-detention-center-strip-searches/?utm_source=openai))

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