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strip-search

a search that involves stripping a person naked

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and M.Y., who were strip-searched by the female police officer, were insolent, apparently implying that they deserved mistreatment or a strip-search.

Probe blocked against police officer who strip-searched female protester

4 ( ANI ): The US State Department has reportedly warned that a video circulating on the web purporting to show an Indian diplomat being strip-searched is a dangerous hoax and may further escalate tensions between the US and India after Devyani Kobaragade case.

US State Dept. warns video showing strip search of Indian diplomat `dangerous hoax`

holdings are inapposite to the debate over postarrest strip-search

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

As Justice Stephen Breyer noted in a dissent, strip-searches are "a serious affront to human dignity and to individual privacy" that should be used only for good reason.

The right to strip search

Police strip-searched 10 pupils at John Port School, an academy in Etwall, Derbys, rated "outstanding" by Ofsted.

SCHOOL BUST; Drug stash in pupils' pants

During intake at BCJ and ECCF, corrections officers performed a strip-search and body-cavity search on Florence.

Constitutional law--permitting blanket strip-search policies for all arrestees entering general jail population--Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of Burlington County, 621 F.3d 296 (3d Cir. 2010)

(204.) Adam Liptak, Strip-Search of Girl Tests Limit of School

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

The application of the standard to the school's decision to strip-search Savana Redding demonstrates not only that it has substance, but also that it is not intended as a makeweight that effectively hides total deferral to unfettered discretion of school administrators.

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

Citing other 1st Circuit decisions that go back to 1985, the court held that the few seconds that the officer observed the naked inmate amounted to a strip-search because the court defined a strip-search as a "visual inspection of the naked body." (6)

Reasonable suspicion required for strip-searches

On appeal, the city did not contest the district court's ruling that its strip-search policy was clearly unconstitutional.

Supreme Court lets stand ruling stripping punitive damage award

The organization said acting principal Charmaine Balsillie ordered several teachers to strip-search all of the gym students.

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After the date of Bettie's execution had been set, prison officials wouldn't let her use the toilet in the visitor's building and were going to strip-search, handcuff, and march her back to her cell, then reverse the process.