NBCWashington.com reports that three District residents, who were part of the legal challenge against 2008’s Trinidad police checkpoints, will be awarded $3,500 and legal fees as part of a settlement reached last week. As part of the deal, police will also be required to expunge any data they collected on individuals they stopped while the checkpoints were in effect. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled in July 2009 that the highly controversial police checkpoints infringed on the neighborhood residents’ Fourth Amendment rights protecting against unlawful search and seizure.