An Alabama woman who wasn’t pregnant but was mistakenly arrested for endangering her fetus with drugs has settled her lawsuit against the sheriff’s office and Department of Human Resources, according to court documents.

Stacey Freeman, who lives in Gallant, said she was arrested after her young child mistakenly told a case worker at the Etowah County Department of Human Resources that Freeman was pregnant. She offered to take a pregnancy test, but it never happened. She was booked in the jail on Feb. 1 and spent about 36 hours behind bars before her case was dismissed.

The terms of the settlement are confidential, said Freeman’s attorney, Martin Weinberg.

“We are thankful that this ordeal has been resolved as it relates to our client,” Weinberg said.

The lawsuit named Etowah County Sheriff Jonathan Horton, Investigator Brandi Fuller and the county Department of Human Resources as defendants.

An investigation by AL.com published last year found that Etowah County arrests more women for drug use during pregnancy than any other county in the state. An analysis found more than 250 cases in a 10-year span. Many new or expectant mothers had been arrested for using marijuana.

Court policies kept many in jail for weeks or months while they awaited inpatient treatment beds required for bond. Some women even gave birth behind bars with no medical care, according to a lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center and Pregnancy Justice.

Justices on the Alabama Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that the state’s chemical endangerment law, which was written to protect children from meth lab fumes, also applied to fetuses. Supporters of the legal concept of personhood, which gives fetuses the same legal rights as children, hailed the ruling as a watershed moment in the fight against abortion.