Protestors oppose jail screening that forces female attorneys to remove bra
KANSAS CITY -- Chanting “We need support!” and carrying signs like “My underwire bra is no threat and neither am I,” about 75 female attorneys and supporters, took to the steps of the Jackson County Courthouse Wednesday to assail a new security policy that prevents them from meeting face-to-face with clients in the county jail on days when they are wearing underwire bras.
They set off the metal detector, and the jail makes no allowances for that.
Their choice, women lawyers say, is to either remove their bras, or have non-contact visits with their clients, via phone and separated by a window, which they call discriminatory because male attorneys are not affected.
Attorneys Laurie Snell and Molly Hastings, two of the organizers, said they were in disbelief that they were talking about their bras in public.
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