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Tue, 21 Oct 2025 11:35:23 -0700
marlon from private IP, post #11721417
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lawsuit over camera use in women’s prison
https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2025/10/judge-dismisses-500m-lawsuit-over-body-camera-use-in-michigan-womens-prison.html
Judge dismisses $500M lawsuit over body camera use in Michigan women’s prison
Published: Oct. 21, 2025, 2:24 p.m.
By Nathan Clark | nclark1@mlive.com
WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI — A $500 million lawsuit claiming Michigan’s women’s prison was engaging in “state-sponsored voyeurism” has been dismissed.
Washtenaw County Probate Judge Julia B. Owdziej granted an order for summary disposition Oct. 15, throwing out the lawsuit against the Michigan Department of
Corrections that argued recording strip searches violated the rights of hundreds of incarcerated women.
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The lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it cannot be refiled.
Attorneys for the prisoners could not be reached for comment.
In total, 37 MDOC officials and employees were named in the lawsuit as well as Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Owdziej granted the dismissal finding the plaintiff failed to state a claim on which relief can be granted.
The lawsuit was filed May 5 on behalf of 20 women, all listed as Jane Doe, at the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Ypsilanti.
It claimed the state allowed invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress, sex-based discrimination and violations of Michigan
constitutional rights when it created a policy permitting the use of body cameras to record strip searches in prisons.
The lawsuit highlighted a Michigan law that states it is illegal to surveil or record someone when they have a reasonable expectation of privacy. The suit
estimated the state was guilty of hundreds of felony counts, which would total $500 million in fines, according to the lawsuit.
In the motion to dismiss, the defense argued privacy for the plaintiffs in the case is almost non-existent as they are all prisoners of the state and have no
expectation of privacy, court documents show.
Attorneys for the state called the lawsuit meritless, noting in their motion to dismiss that the prisoners chosen for the suit were not a random sample but
rather a “convenient sample.”
Additionally, the lawsuit failed to show sufficient evidence or case law showing how the prisoners had been harmed through MDOC’s use of body cameras, court
records show.
For more news about the Michigan Department of Corrections, click here.
Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:48:38 -0700
Andy from private IP
Reply #11941338
That reminds me, Mahsa Parviz gets out in January 2026. Thankfully, there is full security at the office.
Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:52:13 -0700
Andy from private IP
Reply #10784872
I just learned that she is in the Residential Re-entry Management facility in Long Beach. This is transitional housing and means that she is coming up on
release, although there is a substantial period of post-release supervision she has to go through. I don't know what this means for safety, but I'm not happy
that she is in California.
Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:53:44 -0700
zerosugar from private IP
Reply #13693600
wow i feel bad for the attorneys who brought it. they may have thought it was a good case.
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