Filed Date: Oct. 27, 2025
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This class action was filed on October 27, 2025, in the United States District Court for the Central District of California by 38 named female plaintiffs who were or are incarcerated at the Century Regional Detention Facility (CRDF). The plaintiffs sued the County of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, current and former sheriffs, and individual officers, alleging that the Sheriff's Department maintained a policy allowing male correctional officers to subject completely nude female inmates in administrative segregation to frequent, prolonged, and intentional observations while showering. The complaint alleges these observations occurred without consent and for voyeuristic sexual gratification unrelated to any legitimate penological purpose, in violation of Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) requirements. Plaintiffs also alleged that male officers engaged in additional misconduct including non-consensual sexual abuse during transport to showers and intentionally setting water temperatures at scalding levels to cause erratic movement for sexual gratification. The lawsuit asserts federal civil rights claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of the Fourteenth Amendment (bodily privacy and equal protection) and Eighth Amendment (cruel and unusual punishment), seeking damages, injunctive relief, and attorneys' fees.
For PACER's information on parties and their attorneys, see: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71776905/parties/dawn-thalacher-v-county-of-los-angeles/
Wilson, Stephen Victor (California)
Boyce, Leslie A (California)
Dunn, Brian T. (California)
See docket on RECAP: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71776905/dawn-thalacher-v-county-of-los-angeles/
Last updated March 27, 2026, 5:05 p.m.
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Filing Date: Oct. 27, 2025
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Central District of California 2:25-cv-10318
Case Summary of Thalacher v. County of Los Angeles, Civil Rights Litig. Clearinghouse, https://clearinghouse.net/case/47980/.