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strip-search

to strip a prisoner or suspect naked to search him or her for contraband narcotics. Detailed rules in different systems for different purposes govern quite how invasive the search may be.

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That is, assuming that a strip search is conducted appropriately

Florence, Atwater, and the erosion of Fourth Amendment protections for arrestees

earlier, the Seventh Circuit found that a strip search of a

Strip searches of students: addressing the undressing of children in schools and redressing the Fourth Amendment violations

67) Savana finally told her mother about the strip search later that day.

Safford Unified School District No. 1 v. Redding and the future of school strip searches

22) If the strip search in Redding were endorsed as reasonable by the U.

The safest place to hide: life after Safford Unified School District #1 v. Savana Redding

A strip search would not have revealed the drugs if they had been eaten.

Police actions bound by rules

At trial, the accused argued that the strip search was contrary to Section 8 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and therefore the evidence seized should have been excluded from the trial.

Strip searches

8) A refusal to co-operate may result in more prison officers being involved in the strip search, or a woman being placed in an isolation cell on 24 hour observation on the basis that she is identified as being 'at risk.

Strip searching as sexual assault

The fact that Ciraolo's strip search occurred because of an established city policy in no way distinguishes her case from other [sections] 1983 cases in which municipal liability is established, and cannot suffice to place this case within the seemingly narrow exception carved out by" the Supreme Court in Newport, the court said.

Supreme Court lets stand ruling stripping punitive damage award

Four of the youths, including the boy, were taken to Llandudno police station where a strip search took place.

Officers' rap over boy strip search

Under the agency's regulations governing prisoner searches, a strip search can include a "visual inspection" of body cavities, including the nose, mouth, genitals and anus, without intrusion.

Khurshid hints at conspiracy in diplomatic spat with U.S

Supreme Court's recent 8-1 decision that a middle school violated a student's constitutional rights against unreasonable search and seizure when it conducted a strip search.

When common sense fails

The district court held that summary judgment was precluded by genuine issues of material fact regarding the reasonableness of the strip search, and the existence and implementation of a county policy authorizing strip searches for all gross misdemeanant arrestees.