Roberts v. State of Rhode Islan

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• holding that indiscriminate strip searches of misdemeanant arrestees during administrative processing at a detention facility violated the Fourth Amendment
• holding that indiscriminate strip searches of misdemeanant arrestees during administrative processing at a detention facility violated the Fourth Amendment
• holding that a blanket policy of strip-searching arrestees was unreasonable as applied to those arrested for minor offenses
• holding that non-specific evidence that the jail had problems with contraband together with evidence of intermingling was not enough to support a finding of reasonable suspicion
• indicating that searching all inmates is more reasonable in cases in which the record reflects a history of problems with prisoners smuggling items into the institution
• noting that there were less invasive, less constitutionally problematic ways to conduct searches than via strip/ body cavity procedure

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