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| ACLU announces settlement of lawsuit concerning Alameda County jail pregnancy tests |
| By kron4.com |
| Published: 10/29/2015 |
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OAKLAND (BCN) — Women who are booked into Alameda County jails will no longer automatically be required to take pregnancy tests, as a result of a civil-rights-lawsuit settlement announced Wednesday. Instead, they will be given the option of whether they want to take a pregnancy test, unless there is a court order or an emergency in which the woman is incapable of giving consent to the test. The agreement was announced by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, whose lawyers represented three women who sued Alameda County Sheriff Gregory Ahern over the policy in Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland last year. The lawsuit was later moved to federal court.One of the women, Susan Harmon, was 69 years old when she was required to give a urine sample for a pregnancy test at the Glenn E. Dyer Detention Facility in Oakland in 2010 after she was arrested during a protest of the fatal shooting of Oscar Grant by a BART officer. Read More. |
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