Funds from Florissant’s settlement will be distributed to over 85,000 people jailed or fined there between Oct. 31, 2011 and Feb. 1, 2023.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A
Allison Nelson, now 32, said she was jailed twice in Florissant because she couldn’t afford to pay traffic fines.
“To hold money over someone’s head like that, especially with me being as young as I was — that was crazy to me,” Nelson said in a news release from ArchCity Defenders.
Florissant joins the Missouri cities of Jennings, Normandy, Edmundson, Maplewood and St. Ann in settling similar class-action lawsuits. ArchCity Defenders said the six settlements combined have amounted to $16 million in damages. A lawsuit is still pending against the city of Ferguson.
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