This form is a Complaint. This action was filed by the plaintiff due to a strip search which was conducted upon his/her person after an arrest. The plaintiff requests that he/she be awarded compensatory damages and punitive damages for the alleged violation of his/her constitutional rights.
Strip Search For Drugs In Wake
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A strip search involves viewing and inspecting an unclothed body in a non-intrusive manner, i.e. without any physical contact between the prisoner and the staff member conducting the search. In some cases, the search may even consist of nothing more than systematic observation of prisoners undressing.
A strip search or visual body cavity search, or both, shall not be conducted without the prior written authorization of the supervising officer on duty. The authorization shall include the specific and articulable facts and circumstances upon which the reasonable suspicion determination was made by the supervisor.
A strip search is a practice of searching a person for weapons or other contraband suspected of being hidden on their body or inside their clothing, and not found by performing a frisk search, but by requiring the person to remove some or all clothing.
A strip search can include visual body cavity searches. Alternatively, it can consist of just a visual inspection of a person's body for scars or tattoos. There are two basic types of strip searches. A security strip search is performed in institutions such as jails or prisons.
Courts have often held that blanket strip searches are acceptable only for convicted persons. For detainees pending trial, there must be a reasonable suspicion that the detainee is in possession of weapons or other contraband before a strip search can be conducted.
“Unclothed searches are completely voluntary unless a search warrant is presented.
Even so, female guards subject her to regular strip searches. At the ACLU Sean Weneta says inmates are routinely searched during prison-wide inspections or shakedowns, before and after doctor appointments, or meetings with visitors and when coming and going from certain jobs.