Missouri woman who put bra in X-ray machine put on leave

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Missouri 刑務所,拘置所 従業員 said she was placed on leave after putting her underwire bra through an X-ray machine に引き続いて the 実施 of new 安全 対策.

Charlotte Hardin said she had to take off her bra because it 始める,決める off the metal detector at Jackson 郡 拘留,拘置 中心. After putting it through the X-ray machine, she said the 施設 put her on leave in June, 説 that undergarments can't be X-rayed. She hasn't been given a return date, she said.

"This woman has worked for the 郡 for 20 years. She deserves better than this," said Hardin's 弁護士/代理人/検事, Katherine Myers. "This is hard for her."

Some women say new 安全 対策 器具/実施するd in May at the 郡 刑務所,拘置所 are sexist.

Last month, about 75 女性(の) 弁護士/代理人/検事s and 支持者s stood on the steps of the Jackson 郡 Courthouse and 詠唱するd , "We need support!"

At the time, the 抗議する人s said when their bras 始める,決める off metal detectors, they must either 除去する them or 会合,会う with their (弁護士の)依頼人s 経由で phone and separated by a window. The 弁護士/代理人/検事s call that 差別的な because male 弁護士/代理人/検事s aren't 影響する/感情d.

Myers とじ込み/提出するd a sex 差別 and 報復 (民事の)告訴 with the Missouri (売買)手数料,委託(する)/委員会/権限 on Human 権利s and the Equal 雇用 適切な時期 (売買)手数料,委託(する)/委員会/権限.

"This is an 問題/発行する of equality," Myers told KCUR.

Last month, Darryl Fort?, the 郡保安官 of Jackson 郡, said misinformation has been spread about the 審査 過程.

"Everyone is 要求するd to pass through a metal detector," he said. "No one has been asked to take off underwire bras."

But 弁護士/代理人/検事 Laurie Snell said that, along with her shoes and 宝石類, she was 推定する/予想するd to 投げ上げる/ボディチェックする her bra into the 貯蔵所 at the 安全 gate during a trip to the 刑務所,拘置所.

"I went in the bathroom, took it off and threw it in the 貯蔵所. On the elevator on my way up to the see my (弁護士の)依頼人 on the seventh 床に打ち倒す, I wriggled 支援する into it. Why should I have to do that?" Sn ell said. "All the men have to do is take off their belts and shoes."

Myers 公式文書,認めるd: "This is not just an 弁護士/代理人/検事 problem, this is a 女性(の) 問題/発行する."

Diana Turner, the Jackson 郡 是正s department director, last month 競うd the 安全 議定書 目的(とする)s to 妨げる 武器s and contraband from 存在 密輸するd into the 施設. She 追加するd that her 従業員s 港/避難所't had がまんするing by the new 政策.

Neither Fort? nor Turner すぐに 答える/応じるd to KCUR's request for comment Friday.

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(警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) from: KCUR-FM, http://www.kcur.org

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