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Texas woman strip-searched and put to jail for overdue ticket
Published time: October 25, 2013 17:51
In August, Sarah Boaz was cited for running a stop sign, only to lose the ticket shortly afterwards. Two months later, the Richland Hills City Marshal was waiting for her at home with handcuffs.
Boaz acknowledged that it was wrong for her to wait so long to pay the ticket, but expressed frustration over what happened next: She was cuffed by the marshal, taken to jail, and told to remove her clothing for a search by a female police officer.
According to the local CBS 11 News station, Boaz recalled the officer saying, “’I’m going to need you to undress. I’m going to need you to stand against the wall. Please don’t step in front of this white box, or I’ll take that’… aggressive toward me.”
As the article points out, a statement by the Richland Hills Police Department to CBS 11 News explained that stripping down individuals brought to jail was standard procedure, and that it does not consider the practice a strip search.
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Forgot to Pay That Speeding Ticket? “Turn around. Squat and cough. Spread your cheeks.”
Sarah Boaz was ticketed for running a stop sign in August.She lost the ticket. She figured a new one would be sent, or that she’d receive some kind of notice in the mail. She expected to pay some kind of late fee or penalty.
What she didn’t expect was to find the Richland Hills City Marshal waiting at her Texas home with an arrest warrant last Wednesday morning.
Boaz was handcuffed and brought to jail, where a female officer started giving her instructions. She was not prepared for what happened next:
“I’m going to need you to undress. I’m going to need you to stand against the wall. Please don’t step in front of this white box, or I’ll take that as aggressive toward me,” said the officer.“Obviously I am going to jail. I guess it was just frustrating to me, that a bill that I pay a month late, I end up in jail for,” Boaz said.
She said she knows it was wrong not to pay the ticket right away, but didn’t expect to be picked up and taken to jail.
Attorney Jason Smith told CBS 11 News that there’s nothing that requires the city to put people in jail:
“The constitution doesn’t keep the government or government officials from not using common sense. Unfortunately, some police officers, some governments get overly aggressive because they want that ticket revenue.”Strip searches are a common procedure in jails, despite controversy and lawsuits over the practice.
Albert Florence was in the passenger seat of his car when his wife was pulled over for speeding in 2005. The New Jersey state trooper ran a records search and found an outstanding warrant for Florence’s arrest for an unpaid fine – a fine that he had, in fact, paid, and had the documentation to prove it. Florence was handcuffed and arrested anyway.
Even if the warrant had been valid, failure to pay a fine is not a crime in New Jersey.
Florence was held in two different jails for nearly a week. He was subjected to strip searches at each, even though there wasn’t any reason to suspect he was carrying contraband or guilty of a crime.
He was forced to stand naked in front of several guards and other prisoners and instructed to “Turn around. Squat and cough. Spread your cheeks.”
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