Plan Expanding Police's Ability To Conduct Strip Searches Passes Assembly
..."regardless of whether the target of the search has been charged with a misdemeanor or felony."...
On our local NPR station I heard comment that this includes "suspects detained"
any by definition a person stopped for a burnt out tail light is "being detained"
Our state government is about to allow our law enforcement officers to conduct "Strip searches".
----The strip search bill expands on an existing policy that said anyone arrested or detained on suspicion of a crime that isn't a felony could be strip-searched only if the person would be held with others for at least 12 hours. The updated policy removes the 12-hour requirement----
Detained is anytime a law officer has stopped you. If you're walking down the street and an officer stops you to ask a question (did you see something?)
Stopped for a brake light? you "are being detained". And they now have the right to strip search you.
I guess this is what the supporters of Scott Walker want!
Thank god he dropped out of the presidential race!
I believe in this instance detained means in the jail building in a cell vs. handcuffed to a bench in public view. They don't want drugs, phones or weapons brought into the cells.
I remember the time a hippie was randomly searched by a cop back in the 60's.
The man hadn't done anything, he was just walking. But he had long hair and apparently he wasn't very clean, so the cop stopped him and patted him down and found peyote (an illegal street drug that is occasionally used in traditional Native American ceremonies). So the cop arrested him.
Well, first he got off because the cop had no reason to search him. So they had to let him go.
THEN, the hippie stood in front of the court AGAIN and wanted his peyote back, because he was 1/4 NAtive American and he said his rights to religious freedom had been violated. Now, everybody KNEW that the man was too young to be a Shaman, but nobody could PROVE he was not a Shaman, and so the police were ordered to return the peyote. At the time peyote was legal on the Reservations, and the laws concerning Native Americans who were not on the reservations were not clear.
Weird things happen when there is a conflict between local laws and the constitution. This new Wisconsin law looks like something that must be used with great care and precision.
The article was misleading and anti Walker. It was directed for people in jail. Here's what it was meant to do:
"Act 317 expanded who may be strip searched to a person arrested or otherwise lawfully detained or taken into custody if the person will be incarcerated, imprisoned, or otherwise detained in a jail or prison with one or more persons and meets other requirements in the law. However, an amendment was added that specified a detainee may be strip searched under the new category created by Act 317 only if the detainee will be incarcerated, imprisoned, or otherwise detained in the jail or prison for twelve or more hours.
This twelve-hour hold significantly impacted small jail facilities in Wisconsin. Many counties do not have the capacity to hold multiple individuals for twelve hours prior to moving them into cells with other incarcerated individuals. Holding cells are typically detached from the general population and are used for single individuals. In addition, especially in smaller jails, holding cells are utilized for multiple purposes, including during discharge and for medical and mental health reasons. Being required to hold detainees for 12 hours before introducing the detainee into the general population is not possible in many facilities. Therefore, many facilities had to introduce detainees who had not been thoroughly searched, into the general population."
Yeah, this was much ado about nothing or in today's parlance "fake News." The first clue was the guy who started the thread.
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