Bucks County could be on the hook for up to $67 million in punitive damages after a federal jury found it violated the Criminal History Records Information Act by publishing the criminal records of 67,000 people on the web.

The class action lawsuit filed against the county secured $1,000 in punitive damages for each of the 67,000 plaintiffs sent to county jail from 1938 to 2013. The jury held that Bucks County ran afoul of the CHRIA by making the names retrievable through an “inmate lookup tool” through the county’s “Offender Management System” from 2011 to 2013.

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