Strip Searches

Police Under Fire Over Cavity Searches

Simon McCormack | Posted 05.30.2012

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Seven Milwaukee police officers and one supervisor have had their guns and badges taken away amid allegations that they conducted illegal cavity searc...

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The Supreme Court's Decision on Strip Searches Will Make Jails More Dangerous

Lovisa Stannow | Posted 04.24.2012

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Lovisa Stannow

The practice of strip searching all jail inmates, just because they are detainees, is a violation of basic human rights and unnecessary. It is also a recipe for sexual abuse.

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Supreme Court "Strips" Fourth Amendment Protections

John M. Burns | Posted 04.13.2012

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John M. Burns

Let's put this into perspective: If you are arrested for even a traffic violation, the Supreme Court has now given law enforcement officials the green light to strip you down and search even your body cavities, regardless of whether or not they believe you possess any dangerous or banned substance.

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Strip Search Nation (Including The Authoritarian Catechism)

David Bromwich | Posted 04.15.2012

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David Bromwich

The recent Supreme Court decision in Florence v. County of Burlington, supported by the Obama administration, makes a large example of the way an expansionist foreign policy based on coercion and violence has returned on us and come to haunt Americans.

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Privacy: Ditch the Cell Phone or Prepare to Disrobe

Gary Johnson | Posted 04.05.2012

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Gary Johnson

Expecting the government to willingly constrain itself when it comes to violating our privacy is not just foolhardy; it defies everything we know about the very nature of government.

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Mike Sacks

Supreme Court OKs Suspicionless Strip Searches For New Jail Inmates

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 04.02.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday decided that jails may perform suspicionless strip searches on new inmates regardless of the gravity of thei...

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Mike Sacks

Justice Kennedy May Swing Case On Strip Searches

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.12.2011

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WASHINGTON -- There was so much talk of anal cavities at the Supreme Court Wednesday morning that Justice Antonin Scalia asked, "You want us to write ...

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Should Jails Conduct Strip Searches? Supreme Court Hears Constitutional Rights Claim

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 12.12.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed ready Wednesday to endorse a jail policy that forces even people arrested on minor charges to undress and ...

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Decent Decisions

Jamie Fellner | Posted 08.23.2011

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Jamie Fellner

When public officials ignore the line between basic right and wrong in the treatment of other human beings, it is the courts who remind them where the line is and why it matters.

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Michael Roberts: One Man Against the Surveillance State

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011

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John W. Whitehead

Michael Roberts, a 35-year-old airline pilot, is pitting himself against the American surveillance state and putting everything on the line for freedom because of it.

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Scanners: No Place to Hide

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011

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John W. Whitehead

As the surveillance state expands around us, entangling us in a web from which there is no escape, what we used to call "privacy" is fast becoming a thing of the past.

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Inmate Strip Searches Violated Law: Jury

Chicago Sun-Times | NATASHA KORECKI | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the biggest class-action suit of its kind, a federal jury ruled Thursday that Cook County Jail employees broke the law in the way they conducted st...

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Laura Dean

Strip Searches Pervasive Despite Huge Settlements

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Dean | Posted 05.25.2011

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One sunny fall afternoon, a mother of seven answered a knock at her door to find a cluster of policemen waiting on the step. She wore pajamas because ...

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One Strip-Search Too Many

Tamar Abrams | Posted 11.17.2011

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Tamar Abrams

How many of us are willing to send our preteen and adolescent kids to school each morning, open to the possibility that they may be strip-searched for Tylenol?

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Teaching School Children to Live in a Totalitarian Society

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011

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John W. Whitehead

A 15-year-old African-American student was expelled for possession of a "weapon" in violation of the school's zero tolerance policy. The weapon in question was a nail clipper with a 2-inch metal nail file.

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