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 ...

Such searches of a prisoner by a guard of the opposite sex are unconstitutional except in an emergency, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a 6-5 decision.

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

The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that individual school officials were immune from damages because the girl's rights had not been clearly established at the time of the search.

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 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 ...

If you have a problem with school officials strip searching 13-year-olds for Advil — or if you care about the government’s standards for informant use and invasive searches — you can take relief in ...

The panel also ruled that San Francisco County Sheriff Michael Hennessey’s claim that the indiscriminate strip-searching was intended to protect other prisoners and jail staff from potential ...

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 ...

Requiring youth be routinely strip searched while in custody is unconstitutional and is a practice that should be stopped, a Superior Court judge has ruled.

The BRPD strip search policy was recently determined to be unconstitutional in federal court.

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 ...