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Milwaukee Police Sued for Illegal Strip Searches
Five men sued the Milwaukee Police Department, city, and police chief on Wednesday seeking unspecified damages for illegal rectal and strip searches. The lawsuits follow a widespread criminal investigation into the searches that led to the conviction in July of Michael Vagnini.
July 10, 2013
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Supreme Court Upholds Jail Strip Searches
Corrections personnel may perform a routine strip search on any person arrested or detained before admitting them to a jail, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday.
April 1, 2012
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U.S. Supreme Court Considers Legality of Strip Searches
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday began considering whether a suspect can be strip searched and closely examined before entering jail.
October 12, 2011
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Strip Searching Misdemeanor Arrestees
After issuing a series of decisions over the years that have been mostly deferential to custodial officials in managing their secure facilities, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued a new ruling on the constitutionality of visual strip searches of minor-offense arrestees.
May 31, 2012
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Four San Antonio Officers Suspended Over Body Searches
The patrons are also suing in federal court, claiming that the officers violated their civil rights and searched them without probable cause.
October 4, 2007
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Public School Searches
Public school officials are entitled to search the student if there are reasonable grounds for suspecting the student of violating the law
or
any school rule. But once law enforcement officers become involved, higher justification standards will apply.
October 18, 2009
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Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Enacts Transgender Policy
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has enacted a new policy requiring deputies to address transgender and gender non-conforming people using their preferred names and pronouns, officials said Tuesday.
May 17, 2017
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Miss. Capt. Struck, Killed Deploying Spike Strips
A Grenada (Miss.) Police officer deploying spike strips to stop a stolen vehicle was struck and killed by that vehicle. Capt. John Haddock died at the scene on Mississippi Highway 8 near the intersection of Interstate 55.
October 6, 2011
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FL Deputy Killed Deploying Spike Strips During Pursuit
Deputy Michael Magli, 30, died after he was struck by a pickup truck that spun out in the median of a road in north Pinellas County. Magli had parked his patrol cruiser in the median of the road to retrieve and deploy spike strips.
February 18, 2021
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Washington Officer Struck and Killed While Deploying Spike Strips
Officer Diego Moreno was reportedly struck and killed by another officer.
July 23, 2018
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Consent Searches
Warrantless searches are presumed to be unreasonable, but the U.S. Supreme Court has acknowledged that a warrantless search may still be reasonable under the Fourth Amendment if it falls within the guidelines of one or more of a limited number of exceptions.
February 4, 2013
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California Officers Disciplined For Station Sex With Strip Club Workers
Two Rialto (Calif.) Police officers have resigned and four others were severely reprimanded after an internal investigation into allegations they had sex with strip-club workers at station headquarters.
November 18, 2010
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19 Chicago Officer Stripped of Police Powers Over Vaccine Mandate
Most of the officers were assigned to CPD headquarters in Bronzeville, according to John Catanzara, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, the union that represents rank-and-file officers.
October 19, 2021
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California Legislature's U-Turn On Law and Order
The California Constitution was amended in 1982 to bring evidence suppression limits in line with the U.S. Constitution. The present legislature has begun a concerted back door effort to undo the state's requirement to follow the federal exclusionary rule.
June 12, 2012
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Community Caretaking Searches
Few of the safeguards granted to individuals in the United States under the Bill of Rights are more vociferously defended than the Fourth Amendment guaranteeing protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. This is especially the case where the entry of private residences is concerned.
April 7, 2016
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Rethinking Suspect Searches
Both tragedies in Miami and St. Petersburg will be very thoroughly investigated and micro-analyzed. In time, there will be detailed debriefs that will answer these questions, and provide valuable lessons to prevent this from ever happening again.
January 26, 2011
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Structure Searches
Thousands of times a day in this country peace officers search homes, businesses, schools, and other structures for hidden offenders. Structure searches can turn into a high-risk assignment for the officers performing them.
August 31, 2003
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Spike Strip Success In Portland
A Portland Police Bureau officer halts a high-speed pursuit with spike strips and narrowly gets out of the way of the suspect's oncoming vehicle. Read the full story here.
December 6, 2012
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