The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled with whether jail officials may conduct intrusive strip searches of all arrestees, even of those detained for minor offenses, or whether the Constitution demands something more.
Thomas Goldstein of Washington’s Goldstein & Russell, urged the justices to hold that the Fourth Amendment requires reasonable suspicion for strip searches of all arrestees in order to protect individual integrity and dignity. “What is not subject to a reasonable suspicion standard is anything other than close inspection of a person at arm’s length,” he added.
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