NYCLU Reps Transgender Woman in Suit vs Police and Sheriff

DeAnna LeTray, a Waterford transgender woman, is suing the police and sheriff’s office for allegedly mocking her gender identity, using excessive force, and sexually assaulting her during a strip search at the Jefferson County jail. Today we air an interview with one of her lawyers, JP Perry from the New York Civil Liberties Union, to discuss LeTray’s lawsuit. This piece starts with Hudson Mohawk Magazine producer Elizabeth Press.

(for more info on the cases mentioned in this story, visit the NYCLU website: www.nyclu.org/en/news/one-trans-womans-fight-paving-way-safer-jails-and-prisons and here is the Steuben County settlement: docs are at the bottom of this page – www.nyclu.org/en/cases/faith-v-steuben-county)