{"id":64675,"date":"2026-08-17T11:23:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64675"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:23:34","slug":"ca5-rs-required-of-weapons-or-contraband-for-search-of-vagina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64675","title":{"rendered":"CA5: RS required of weapons or contraband for search of vagina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This strip search of a female detainee stated a claim and overcame qualified immunity. Brown v. Wallace, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 24643 (5th Cir. Aug. 14, 2026):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In other words, both our precedent and &#8220;a robust consensus of cases of persuasive authority&#8221; require an officer to have at least a reasonable suspicion that an arrestee not being released into the general population is hiding or concealing weapons or contraband before subjecting the arrestee to a strip and body cavity search. We therefore conclude that it is clearly established that, at a minimum, Officer Alvarado-Cruz needed reasonable suspicion that Brown was hiding or concealing weapons or contraband in a body cavity to justify her search of Brown&#8217;s vagina and buttocks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This strip search of a female detainee stated a claim and overcame qualified immunity. Brown v. Wallace, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 24643 (5th Cir. Aug. 14, 2026):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64676,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64675\/revisions\/64676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}