Monday, April 2, 2012

Supreme Court OK's Strip Searching for Minor Offenses | AlterNet

Supreme Court OK's Strip Searching for Minor Offenses | AlterNet
"Some potential offenses for which you might be strip-searched, according to Breyer: violating a leash law, failing to pay child support, or driving without a license. And it probably goes without saying that protest-related arrests would count. And since the point of strip-searching is to hunt down "contraband" it's pretty clear that drug-related arrests (including the many from racist stop-and-frisk policies) would count as well."