Dugan v. Montana

How courts have described this case

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• acknowledging that some circuits require reasonable suspicion to strip search persons charged with misdemeanor offenses, unlike felony offenses, where no level of suspicion is required
• subjecting arrestees to visual strip searches during the booking process without reasonable suspicion does not offend the Fourth Amendment
• describing the weight the Supreme Court placed on the security interests of the institution
• declining to apply the Turner test to custodial strip searches on this ground
• involving arrestees searched pursuant to detention facility’s policy of strip searching all arrestees as part of the process of booking them into the general population of the facility, even without reasonable suspicion
• interpreting the Supreme Court's decision in Bell to permit a strip search without reasonable suspicion when conducted during \the point-of-entry booking process before [the inmates] were placed into the general jail population\

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