Sirota v. Township of Howell

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• concluding that Chicago’s blanket policy requiring visual cavity inspection of 9 The protections of the Fourth Amendment were extended to the states under the Fourteenth Amendment. See Zoretic v. Darge, 832 F.3d 639, 643 (7th Cir. 2016
• concluding that body cavity searches as a matter of course for women detained in lock-up for misdemeanor offenses violated Fourth Amendment where the women were not inherently dangerous and there was no individualized suspicion of concealed contraband
• finding unconstitutional searches of women briefly detained for misdemeanor offenses, including driving without a driver’s license, in city lockup while awaiting bail money
• relying on Supreme Court law to hold that a gender-based strip search policy was subject to scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause
• distinguishing the constitutionality of strip searches where there is no probable cause or reasonable suspicion for pretrial detainees held on \inherently dangerous\ crimes from the unconstitutionality of strip searches of \minor offenders\
• distinguishing the constitutionality of strip searches where there is no probable cause or reasonable suspicion for pretrial detainees held on \inherently dangerous” crimes from the unconstitutionality of strip searches of \minor offenders”

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