Stark County Sheriff's Office - violating women and naked strip searches

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'via Blog this'During the Steffey case, it was discovered that 128 women had experienced strip search, naked isolation or related treatment between 1999 and 2007. Privacy concerns prevented the identification of these women which led Steffey's lawyers to use the billboard to encourage other women to come forward.^[11] Following the bill board and media reporting on the incident, five women including Valentina Dyshko came forward to report similar experiences with Stark County Sheriff's personnel^[12] including "Elizabeth" (a pseudonym) who herself was employed in a medium security jail reported being accused of suicidal behaviour and strip searched after being arrested for defending herself against inappropriate touching by a sheriff deputy during a traffic stop following a lane change without indicating, the sheriff accused her of failing a breath test when her asthma prevented her from blowing sufficiently strongly during the breath test.^[13]