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Article: CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION PLANS LAWSUITS ON STRIP SEARCHES

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Spotlighting the alleged strip search of 30 people at a private party, the Indiana Civil Liberties Union has launched a campaign to limit when police can order suspects to remove their clothes for a search. The ICLU announced over the weekend it would file three class-action lawsuits in federal courts in Indianapolis and South Bend today, targeting incidents that occurred in Elkhart, Johnson and Monroe counties.

"The Civil Liberties Union is going to federal court to establish a precedent to stop unconstitutional and far-reaching strip-search policies, which is a degrading and humiliating process," said ICLU executive ...

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