Camacho

Melissa Camacho, an American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California senior staff attorney, represents inmates in two long-standing class-action lawsuits over conditions and abuse in the department’s jails.

“They don’t have enough buses to take people to court,” Melissa Camacho, a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, said at the time.

Two months later, Camacho said she still worries about how things might have turned out if the winds had been a little stronger.

Melissa Camacho, a senior staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California — which is representing jail inmates in two class-action lawsuits against the county — questioned why the Sheriff’s Department’s budget has risen to $4 billion in light of the enormous legal expenses and repeated lawsuits.

“It was like someone took a pail of ice water and dumped it on my head,” said Dixon Camacho.