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 ...

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 ...

A federal judge in July ruled BRPD's strip-search policy unconstitutional and ordered the department to stop subjecting non-arrested detainees to the cavity searches when there was no probable ...

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.