Public Defense

8 Sedgwick County Kansas Jail Lawsuits And 31 Complaints
SEDGWICK COUNTY, KS - When Ron Mires heard a man had been seriously injured in the Sedgwick County Jail last month, he thought of his brother. To Mires, the cases bore a key similarity: Both men suffered critical head injuries allegedly during an altercation with a sheriff’s officer, allegedly while trying to force their way out [...

Federal Report Finds Poor Conditions at Cook County Jail
July 18, 2008 Federal Report Finds Poor Conditions at Cook County Jail By MONICA DAVEY NY Times CHICAGO ? People awaiting trial here at the Cook County Jail, one of the nation?s largest local jails, have endured vastly inadequate medical...

Cuyahoga County Sheriff Finds Solution to Over-Crowding in Jail
Local complaints about the Cuyahoga County jail being over-crowded have been swirling around for years.The Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office recently did something concrete about it by implementing Phase I of a new plan to ship inmates who are charged with...

"Kansas Supreme Court sends Tiller grand jury case back to Sedgwick County"
"Kansas Supreme Court sends Tiller grand jury case back to Sedgwick County": The Wichita Eagle provides a news update that begins, "In a ruling that gave both sides of the abortion rights debate reason to celebrate, the Kansas Supreme Court outlined instructions for a Sedgwick County district judge to follow in determining whether more than 2,000 patient records should be produced by a Wichita abortion clinic...

Community Using Grand-Jury-by-Petition to Investigate Abortion Doc
In Kansas, one of the few states to allow residents to force a grand jury investigation, a late-term abortion doc has become a target of the novel legal tactic. On the front-page of today’s NYT, Monica Davey reports that, since January, a grand jury in Sedgwick County has been meeting to investigate whether the clinic [...

Abortion grand jury subpoenas Kansas AG's office
From The AP: Attorney General Stephen Six says his office has received two subpoenas from a grand jury investigating abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. Six told The Associated Press that the subpoenas from the grand jury in Sedgwick County were...

County Jail Strip Search Class Action
Preliminary Settlement Reached

Restraining Chair
Santa Cruz County agree to $3 million wrongful death settlement after an inmate died while in jail.

Jail Gaurd Harassed
Yakima County to pay ex-gaurd $200,000 harassment settlement.

Correctional Managers
Jury orders Marion County to pay $1 million racial discrimination settlement to two former employees.

Bank Website Security
New Report Finds Widespread Flaws

Contract Extortion
County Executive Robert Janiszewski ordered to pay Hudson County a $650,000 racketeering settlement.