Three women who were among the more than 100 inmates whose strip search videos were allegedly watched repeatedly by a Colorado jail’s former commander are suing him and government agencies, saying they failed to keep tabs on who was accessing the images and why.
The proposed federal class action lawsuit, filed Wednesday, alleges that La Plata County and its sheriff’s office knew that Edward Aber had a history of being accused of sexual impropriety or harassment when he was hired and failed to place controls on access to strip search footage, including monitoring who was accessing it.
Aber is already being criminally prosecuted after a state investigation found that he had watched the strip search videos of at least 117 female inmates over about five years, often viewing them weeks and months after they were recorded as part of the jail’s intake process. The searches of female inmates entering the county jail are done by female deputies and recorded on their body cameras to ensure the new inmates are not hiding contraband like drugs on their bodies.
Guy can’t just go on pornhub like everyone else, what a numpty
Why are there videos of this in the first place? Surely not to prove that guards acted wrongly, because in this case, strangely enough, the evidence always seems to disappear.
If the identity and privacy of the person being searched can be protected, I think there should be video, to help prevent abuse by the person doing the searching.
But what prevents abuse of the video like in this case? I wouldn’t want a naked video of me floating around out there. It’s not like prison guards are known for being super honest either. It must feel super violating and even more so to have it filmed.
Yes, of course. But the evidence must also be presented to the court in an unaltered form, which seems increasingly unlikely these days in the US, where even the Attorney General is no longer doing things as they should be done.
Such. A. Jerk.
The videos were sometimes watched from home and hotels, often late at night or early in the morning, it said.
I won’t claim to be an expert, but based on this I’d say this guy is an absolute fucking loser.
