{"id":13656,"date":"2014-10-10T12:23:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T17:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13656"},"modified":"2014-10-10T12:23:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T17:23:55","slug":"wapo-more-drug-war-anal-probes-this-time-in-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13656","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: More drug war anal probes, this time in Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2014\/10\/09\/more-drug-war-anal-probes-this-time-in-tennessee\/\">More drug war anal probes, this time in Tennessee<\/a> by Radley Balko:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last year we learned of three incidents in New Mexico in which motorists pulled over for moving violations were subjected to forced anal cavity searches, x-rays and even colonoscopies because police suspected they were hiding drugs in their bodies.  I pointed out in January that the practice has also been used in Texas, Illinois, Florida and Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like Oak Ridge, Tenn., has been doing it, too.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Oak Ridge man who says he was forced in June 2011 to submit to a digital rectal exam for suspected drugs \u2014 and no drugs were found \u2014 has filed a lawsuit in Anderson County Circuit Court.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: More drug war anal probes, this time in Tennessee by Radley Balko: Last year we learned of three incidents in New Mexico in which motorists pulled over for moving violations were subjected to forced anal cavity searches, x-rays and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13656\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-searches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13658,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13656\/revisions\/13658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}