Receive a prepaid debit card to return your money after you were arrested? You may be eligible to participate in a lawsuit to recover fees you paid.

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 Bank of Kansas City (CBKC). 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 Washington federal court against CBKC claiming these acts were illegal.

The Court in that lawsuit, Rutherford v. CBKC, certified that case as a class action and directed that notice be provided to persons who may have received a release card that is part of this litigation. This website was set up to further aid in providing that notice. if you received a Numi release card between April 17, 2023 and September 29, 2024 you may be a member of this class.

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

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

Information regarding the class certified by the Court and answers to other questions regarding this case can be viewed by clicking here, which also describes the options you have, including choosing not to participate in the case. If you are a member of the class and do nothing, you will be (1) bound by any decision made by the Court regarding these claims and (2) eligible to participate in any recovery from a settlement or judgement in this case.