Psychiatric Hospital Hit With Class Suit Over Strip Searches

(May 2, 2019, 12:44 PM EDT) -- SEATTLE — Psychiatric hospital Fairfax Behavioral Health’s blanket policy of strip-searching patients for drugs or weapons while the process is video recorded violates patients’ privacy and violates the standard of care, one patient, referred to only as “Jane Doe,” alleges in an April 30 class complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington (Jane Doe, et al. v. Fairfax Behavioral Health, No. 19-635, W.D. Wash.)....

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