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Suspicionless Car Searches of Prison Visitors Upheld

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Searches, Strip Searches, Visitor Searches, Vehicle Searches. Location: Oklahoma.

The court of appeals for the Tenth circuit upheld a roadblock by Oklahoma state police and prison officials that led to the suspicionless car searches and dog sniffs of all prison visitors seeking access to prison. Court upheld the strip search of visitors after drug dog alerted to presence of ...

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