Criminal defense attorneys in Jackson County, Missouri, have signed an open letter protesting a new security screening system that allegedly denies female lawyers to see their clients in the county ...

Tales of women attorneys and visitors being forced to remove their bras in order to gain entry to the Jackson County jail almost sound too sexist to be true. But no, in fact, the Jackson County ...

After the Jackson County Sheriff, the County Counselor's Office and attorneys reached an agreement, attorneys no longer have to remove their underwire bras to see their clients in the county jail.

People concerned about the inconvenience for those whose underwire bras trigger metal detectors fail to consider that even a small metal object such as a hat pin can be deadly. (June 4, 4A, “Jackson ...

COEUR D'ALENE -- A Bonners Ferry woman says security workers forced her to remove her bra before she was allowed entry into a federal courthouse. "I was embarrassed and humiliated," Lori Plato said ...

Ruth Petsch, the head of Missouri's public defender office in Kansas City, told the county's presiding judge last week that the Jackson County Detention Center won't let her staff in to visit their ...