No-Cause Strip Searching Illegal for Adults, Legal for Teens?
After curfew violating teens at the Minnehaha County Detention Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, were told to strip to underwear and in some cases nude, 16-year-old Jodie Smook challenged the policy in a class action suit. Adults cannot be strip-searched for minor offenses without reasonable cause, pointed out Smook's lawyer, Matt Piers of Chicago, and juveniles are more emotionally vulnerable thus need more 4th amendment protection, not less.
A U.S. District Court agreed. But the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has just overturned that ruling. Smook and her attorney plan to appeal. Fox News