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New York Jail's Strip Search Policy Permanently Enjoined
Loaded on March 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2005, page 29
A federal court in New York held that the Orange County Correctional Facility's (OCCF) strip search policy violated the Fourth Amendment by authorizing strip searches without individualized reasonable suspicion that a detainee possessed contraband. The court found that the balance of hardships tipped in favor of plaintiffs and warranted the ...
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