Placer County officials have agreed to settle a jail abuse lawsuit by paying $100,000 to a former inmate, while yet another lawsuit has been filed alleging that deputies beat a prisoner in the Auburn jail last year.
The developments come as Placer County continues to grapple with the fallout from a scandal revealed last May by Sheriff Devon Bell, who announced the arrests of three Auburn jail employees on charges of excessive force against inmates and falsifying evidence.
Charges against the three are pending, and they remain suspended from the department.
The allegations have spawned a series of at least seven federal civil rights lawsuits, including one that is in the process of being settled for a $100,000 payment with no admission of wrongdoing by the county.