A crowd of civil rights activists rallied outside a San Francisco County Jail on Friday after 20 women filed a federal lawsuit accusing deputies in the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office of conducting an illegal strip search inside a women’s jail unit last year.

“We are here for, today, the women who were in this jail behind us, whose rights were violated when they were mass strip searched by sheriff’s deputies one year ago,” said San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju in a speech.

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.