Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:46:48 -0700 From: Clare Howell Subject: IYF-Tranny Wins Court Award MEDIA ADVISORY - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Editor: Clare Howell, clare@gpac.org TRANSEXUAL WOMAN WINS COURT AWARD AFTER STRIP SEARCH ==================================================== [San Francisco, CA: 20 Apr 99] VICTORIA SCHNEIDER WAS awarded $750,000 this week by the U.S. District Court for emotional pain and suffering after she was strip searched by sheriff's deputies in June 1996. The AP reports that she had been arrested for prostitution, although she was never charged. She maintained that the search was unnecessary as deputies at the same jail had searched her after a 1993 arrest to determine if she was a woman. She pleaded with them to look at the old records, but they refused. Ms. Schneider maintained that the search was done to humiliate her. City employees and detainees laughed and jeered her during the search. The Court also ordered a deputy who ordered the search to pay her $5,000 in punitive damages. ### Subscriptions. Please contact: Subscribe@Gpac.org For prior releases, check the GenderPAC website at: http://www.gpac.org (c) 1999 InYourFace GenderPAC's online news-only service for gender activism.