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| Court lets rulings against jail Internet images stand |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 07/04/2005 |
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The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand lower courts' rulings that barred Maricopa County (Ariz.) Sheriff Joe Arpaio from transmitting live video of jail inmates on the Internet. The Supreme Court declined to review a ruling by a three-judge panel of the Ninth U-S Circuit Court of Appeals which denied Arpaio's appeal of U-S District Judge Earl Carroll's decision to issue a preliminary injunction to stop the cameras. The plaintiffs now will seek a permanent injunction, said Donna Hamm of Middle Ground, an inmate-rights group. Carroll's March 2003 preliminary injunction prohibited video feed pending resolution of the plaintiffs' lawsuit alleging that the cameras violate the 14th Amendment. Twenty-four former jail inmates who had been awaiting trial filed the lawsuit against Arpaio and Maricopa County in May 2001. They claimed the jail cams violated their rights under the 14th Amendment, which prohibits any punishment of pretrial detainees. Three cameras fed live video of a men's holding cell, a booking area and an incoming inmate patdown area on the sheriff's Web site. Arpaio and the plaintiffs disagreed about the placement of a fourth video camera, which former female inmates say transmitted video of a toilet in a women's holding cell for six months. The sheriff said the camera was moved hours after he learned it was filming the toilet area. |
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