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 By Police In Washington
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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.
“Unclothed searches are completely voluntary unless a search warrant is presented.
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.
Indeed, under the Eighth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment, strip searches must be done for a legitimate reason, and they cannot be conducted in order to humiliate or to harass a prisoner.
The Court also clarified that blanket strip searches do not violate the Fourth Amendment even when they are conducted on pre-trial detainees or inmates charged with or convicted of minor offenses.
The Court also clarified that blanket strip searches do not violate the Fourth Amendment even when they are conducted on pre-trial detainees or inmates charged with or convicted of minor offenses.
As far as bodily cavity searches go, visual body-cavity inspections are expected when checked into jail. However, the Fourth Amendment only allows that these visual tests can be done if they are balanced against the jail's security interests against the inmates' privacy interests.