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KENNEDY v. LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPT.

No. CV 83-7050-SVW.

667 F.Supp. 697 (1987)

Karen KENNEDY, Plaintiff, v. LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT, City of Los Angeles, Daryl Gates, James J. King, Stanley A. Schott, Mary Buelna, and Karen Houghton, Defendants.

United States District Court, C.D. California.

August 14, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pam Lawson, Las Vegas, Nev., for plaintiff.

James K. Hahn, City Atty., Greg Wolff, Deputy City Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants.

AMENDED MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

WILSON, District Judge.

In this opinion, the court discusses the constitutionality of a policy of the Los Angeles Police Department ("LAPD") that mandates a visual body cavity search for every pretrial detainee arrested on any felony charge.1 This issue arises in the following context: the plaintiff, Karen Kennedy, was arrested for grand theft and subjected to a body cavity search. The plaintiff sued...

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