Nassau counters payment sought in strip-search case
Attorneys for 17,700 people arrested for minor offenses and illegally strip-searched in the Nassau County jail in the late 1990s are asking the county to pay each of them $10,000, for a budget-busting total of $177 million, according to court papers filed this week in federal court in Central Islip.
County attorneys, in their papers, countered that the people who were illegally strip-searched...
