ACLU lawsuit against San Diego County Sheriff's Dept. over COVID spread moves forward

A class-action lawsuit by the ACLU against the San Diego County Sheriff's Department is moving forward. The ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties and two other firms, Community Advocates for Just & Moral Governance and the Singleton, Schreiber, McKenzie & Scott law firm, claim Sheriff Bill Gore did not do enough to stop the spread of COVID-19 in San Diego County jails last year. The ACLU filed the lawsuit in March, just one day after the sheriff announced a major COVID-19 outbreak at the George Bailey Detention Facility in Otay Mesa. Now with the Delta variant quickly spreading, they say it’s critical to make sure that the sheriff does everything he can to stop the spread of the virus in jails. “Our basic position throughout this entire litigation is that people who are in San Diego County jails haven’t been sentenced to die from COVID-19. The sheriff has an obligation to protect them and has been failing to do that,” said Jonathan Markovitz, a staff attorney for ACLU San Diego and Imperial Counties. Full story at CBS8.com: https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/loc...