{"id":8266,"date":"2013-01-23T06:12:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T06:10:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T06:10:34","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8266","title":{"rendered":"Law.com: “City pushes back on suit over public strip search”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Law.com, Fulton Daily Report: City pushes back on suit over public strip search<\/a> by R. Robin McDonald: <\/p>\n

The city of Atlanta has paid more than $750,000 in damages to eight people who since 2007 have been subjected by Atlanta police to public body cavity and strip searches on city streets.<\/p>\n

But the city is pushing back against a ninth complaint\u2014a federal suit by a city worker who claims as many as five officers with the police department’s disbanded Red Dog unit stopped him without cause on a city street in Atlanta’s West End three years ago, yanked down his pants, and groped his genitals in a fruitless search for illegal drugs. …<\/p>\n

But attorneys for Ricky Sampson, who works for the Atlanta Department of Watershed Management, argue that Sampson is just one more victim of heavy-handed, and often unconstitutional, tactics that city police have employed for years and that have shown little sign of abating despite a string of lawsuits that have successfully challenged humiliating police searches of civilians on city streets and other public venues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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