A Southeastern Pennsylvania county faces about $66 million in punitive damages payments to a class of former jail inmates after posting their arrest information online.
Daryoush Taha sued the Bucks County Correctional Facility in 2012 over its Inmate Lookup Tool. It made information about his 1998 arrest publicly accessible even though his record was expunged, he alleged.
A federal jury May 28 agreed with Taha that Bucks County and its corrections department “willfully” violated Pennsylvania’s Criminal History Record Information Act, also known as CHRIA, by disseminating the criminal record histories of more than 66,500 people booked at the facility between ...
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