Munoz v. Kolender.

• Position: Sex offenders, strip searches - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

SEX OFFENDERS

Munoz v. Kolender, 208 F.Supp.2d 1125 (S.D.Cal. 2002). A civil detainee who was confined in a county jail under the provisions of California's Sexually Violent Predator Act brought a [section] 1983 action against a county sheriff, challenging his confinement and the conditions of his confinement. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the sheriff. The court held that the Act had a dual purpose, to remove dangerous sexually violent predators from society and to provide them with treatment, and that confinement pursuant to the Act was civil in...