Activists allege strip searches of women at SF County Jail violated their privacy rights

Outside the large concrete building of the San Francisco County Jail with the words “Hall of Justice” etched into the wall, local leaders and community organizers convened on Monday morning to denounce allegations of women being forced to strip naked by male officers who were wearing body cameras.

The coalition alleged over 20 women were strip searched as a group on May 22, and while they were patted down by female officers, they were in view of laughing male officers who had their body cameras on.