The city of San Francisco will settle a $465,000 lawsuit filed 10 years ago over strip searches conducted by the Sheriff's Department. Filed in 2002, the plaintiff, a former political activist, claimed she was forced into a visual body cavity search and locked in a cold cell for 24 hours after being arrested during an anti-war protest. The lawsuit targets the department's policy of strip-searching every arrestee brought into the jail, regardless of the charges.

Joshua Sabatini, San Francisco Examiner 01/27/2013