The chief federal judge for the Middle District of Louisiana has ruled that the Baton Rouge Police Department’s current strip search policy is unconstitutional.

A female jail guard's strip search of a male inmate was a "humiliating event" that violated his rights, a divided federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Wednesday. Such searches of a ...

A strip-searches by a prison guards has been ruled unconstitutional after an inmate awaiting trial described his search at the hands of a female guard as “a humiliating event.” In a 6-5 ruling ...

Strip searches are so dehumanizing that they violate a person’s constitutional rights if conducted without good reason to suspect that an arrested individual is carrying contraband, a federal ...

A Pomona Police Department policy mandating strip-searches of all felony suspects is unconstitutional, a federal judge declared in a tentative ruling Monday.

The Oakland Police Department's strip-search policy is unconstitutional because it provides too low a threshold for officers seeking to check for contraband on suspects in public places, a federal ...

DETROIT - In a victory for student rights, a panel of federal judges ruled today that a strip search conducted on more than 20 students at Whitmore Lake High School was unconstitutional. "This opinion ...

A federal judge has ruled that the city's former policy allowing new prisoners to be strip-searched, regardless of the charges against them, was unconstitutional.

A U.S. District Court judge has ruled that the Oakland Police Department’s street strip-search policies are generally constitutional—though portions of it are not—but trials in individual cases must ...

BRPD’s strip search policy is laid out in general order 281, which includes procedural guidelines for when officers are allowed to conduct them on people who haven’t been charged.

The chief federal judge for the Middle District of Louisiana has ruled that the Baton Rouge Police Department’s current strip search policy is unconstitutional and has issued a preliminary ...