{"id":129427,"date":"2017-09-22T16:34:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T21:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=129427"},"modified":"2017-10-01T11:15:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T16:15:52","slug":"city-county-settles-lawsuit-with-jailed-deaf-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=129427","title":{"rendered":"City, county, settles lawsuit with jailed deaf woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-93555\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/justice2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"117\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota courts, Stutsman County and the Jamestown Police Department have agreed to make policy changes after failing to provide an interpreter for a <span style=\"color: #333333;\">deaf<\/span> Bismarck woman following her arrest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=102587\">Christine Stein sued<\/a> the court system, the county and the city of Jamestown last year. She said she was wrongfully arrested after calling 911 to report a man who was threating to kill himself. She was held in solitary confinement but the charges were later dropped.<\/p>\n<p>The $90,000 settlement finalized Friday requires Stutsman County and Jamestown to improve their procedure for interacting with <span style=\"color: #333333;\">deaf<\/span> and hard-of-hearing people, including annual training for law enforcement officers and on-call sign language interpreters.<\/p>\n<p>Stein&#8217;s attorney, Heather Gilbert, says the county and city will jointly pay $75,000 while the state court system will pay $15,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota courts, Stutsman County and the Jamestown Police Department have agreed to make policy changes after failing to provide an interpreter for a deaf Bismarck woman following her arrest. Christine Stein sued the court system, the county and the city of Jamestown last year. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129427"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129452,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129427\/revisions\/129452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}