Receive a prepaid debit card to return your money after you were arrested? You may be entitled to recover three times the fees you were charged.

When persons are arrested, detention facilities confiscate their personal property, including cash, which is required to be returned when the persons are released. Numi Financial convinced detention facilities to return this money through its "Prestige" prepaid debit cards ("release cards") issued by its partner bank, Central National Bank. They assessed fees from the returned money, including “maintenance” charges for simply possessing the unrequested cards. Persons receiving these cards had no choice but to accept them if they wanted to access their own money. A lawsuit was filed in Oregon federal court against Numi and the bank claiming these acts were illegal.

That lawsuit, Brown v. Numi and CNB, has settled, and the defendants agreed to pay up to $4 million to members of the class. You may be able to participate in the settlement if you received a Numi release card after July 2014. Eligible claimants may receive up to three times the amount of fees charged by the card, depending on the number of eligible claims submitted.

To find out if you received a release card from a facility involved in this case and were eligible to participate in the settlement, click here.

To find out more information about the lawsuit and the claims, click here.

NO FURTHER CLAIMS WILL BE ALLOWED AFTER DECEMBER 31, 2024

Checks for approved claims should be mailed by the claims administrator by February 1, 2025. Check updates for the latest information.