Is it legal to be strip searched at your place of employment without a warrent?
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Wow.  So many highly opinionated answers, and so little information upon which to base them.\n\nFirst of all, perhaps it's just the way you wrote your question, but since you work on a different floor, how do *you* know ANY of this is true?\n\nSecond, what state/country are you in?  It might very well matter.\n\nA few other questions, if you're going to stand a chance of getting an intelligent answer that doesn't involve someone talking about the Patriot Act:\n\nYou said the Director of Nursing called the police.  Did they come?  What did they do?\n\nWho told the people on that floor they could not leave?  How was that enforced, if it was?\n\nWho ordered the strip search, and what do you mean by strip search?  It has a specific legal definition and you may not be talking about what's considered a strip search under the law.  Were people actually required to remove or arrange some or all of their clothing so as to permit a visual inspection of the underclothing, breasts, buttocks, or genitalia? (California's definition of a strip search)\n\nI'll talk about what I can talk about based on California law:\n\nAs for your question (can you be legally strip searched at your place of employment without a warrant?); it's almost not possible to answer you.  Strip searches in California do not require a warrant, but they are subject to a number of requirements, chief among them being that you are in custody.  I cannot imagine a situation where an entire floor of nurses (whether that be five or fifty) could have been arrested for this and therefore strip searched.\n\nI don't know...I could probably go on, but I think there's just not enough information to give you a decent answer.  Strip searching, detaining employees, urine testing and the like might not have been out of line depending on agreements with your employer and who conducted them (I can't imagine the police in the US would have done such a thing without an awful lot more info than this) and whether in fact they were even done (you did say you work on another floor, so I have to assume you got this info second hand and perhaps a little exaggerated).\n\nPost some more info, I'd love to know more about this.
738283
If the search warrant is a reality, meaning if it exists, yes. You (the owner) can ask to see a copy of it and they must produce one or every thing they found is inadmissible in court. But you don't have to see it before they enter your home.
983926
It is illegal for the stores personal to search you without you agreeing to it, you should have exercised your rights and refused the search and let them call a police officer and let him search you and after he was through and didn't find anything on you then I would have sued them for wrongfully detaining me, for assuming without facts or evidence, for public embarrassment and harassment, based on your nationality, maybe even prejudice and discrimination, yeah there's a law suit that can be brought up, or they can settle out of court.
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Your employer can read your e-mail if it's on their system. Employees really have no privacy rights unless you're going to the bathroom.\n Where I work and a previous company, cameras monitor employees.\n A company can search anything you bring onto or take from company property. This includes your lunch, your pockets, anything.\n They have a right to protect proprietary information. Basically company secrets.\n If you use a company phone, they can monitor calls to ensure you are properly representing their interests.\n Hope you're not to surprised, but it is their place.
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4th Amendment-"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."\n\nSome would say yes because of the Domestic Wiretapping issue
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if the cop has suspision of you doing something or carrying something in your purse then yes but he Must ask you for permission b4 doing so. it is your right to refuse & tell him to get a warrant to search your purse.
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Any time the officer has a reason to have you step out of the car, the officer can perform a limited search of you and your vehicle. That reason can be something as simple as you acting nervous, moving around a lot, suspicious hand movements, aggressive attitude, or even if the officer makes it a standard procedure on every traffic stop he/she makes.\n\nThe U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the officer has a right to ensure his/her own safety when dealing with any member of the public for any legal reason. That means any time that an officer comes into contact with a person on any type of police call: suspicous person, domestic disturbance, disorderly conduct, traffic violation, etc.\n\nAccording to the Court, the officer can conduct a "pat down" search of the person, checking for weapons. This means the officer can pat down the outside of person's clothing feeling for weapons. If an officer feels anything that, based on his/her training and experience, could possibly be a weapon, drugs, or other illegal item, the officer can then go inside the pocket to determine the true nature of that item. They are looking for weapons, but if they find anything else, it'll stick in court.\n\nThe officer is also allowed to conduct what is referred to as a "wing-span" search of the vehicle to check for weapons. This search covers any area of the vehicle that could be reached by any occupant of the vehicle. If there is more than one person in the car, this will pretty much cover the entire passenger compartment of the car. It does not, however, include a locked glove box or the trunk, unless the inside of the trunk was accessible to a person inside the car (such as if the back seat was laid forward, leading into the trunk). The officer is checking for weapons, but if they find anything else illegal, it will stick in court.\n\nSo to answer your question more simply, yes, a police officer can search your car.
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In North America, civil lawsuits, as well as criminal code changes against strip searches have usually been successful when a person is strip-searched by someone of the other gender, especially in cases where a woman has been strip-searched by a male guard or guards. The more disputed legal cases have often involved the presence of persons of the other gender during a strip search. Some of these cases have been less successful because of the legal technicality of who was actually performing the strip search, i.e. if multiple guards are present, the search is often (legally) said to be being performed by the person or persons giving the orders or instructions to the person or persons being searched.\n\nAnother legal issue is that of blanket strip searches, such as in jails where arrestees are routinely strip-searched prior to having been found guilty of any crime in a court of law. Courts have often held that blanket strip searches are acceptable only for persons found guilty of a crime. For arrestees pending trial, there must be a reasonable suspicion that the arrestee is in possession of weapons or other contraband before a strip search can be conducted. The same often holds true for other situations such as airport security and customs officers, but the dispute often hinges on what constitutes reasonable suspicion.\n[edit]\n\nIncidental strip searches\n\nIn order to bypass the legal reasonable suspicion requirement, and because strip searches can be humiliating, the search often made less overt, as part of an intake process, that includes a mandatory shower. For example, many homeless shelters require a mandatory shower (supervised) prior to entry. Most prisons also include a mandatory shower along with a change of clothes. The shower serves to make the strip search less blatant as well as providing the additional benefit of removing contamination (in addition to removing weapons or other contraband). The ADCA Diversion Forum (Sobering Up Shelter - DASA, Alice Springs) advises that to keep shelters safe, all personal clothing should be collected from clients and cleaned, along with requiring each client to have a mandatory shower to "discreetly" check for weapons or other contraband. Thus bathing, which is a justifiable necessity, often allows a similar outcome to a strip search with less legal liability, being less actionable when applied to everyone entering a facility, as well as being less offensive to clients than requiring them to undergo what is overtly presented as a strip search.\n\nThe courts have often held that requiring a person to have a shower as a condition of entry into a space (such as a prison, shelter, or the like) does not, in itself, constitute a strip search, even if the shower and surrounding space are so constructed as to afford visibility of the unclothed body by guards during the showering process.\n\nHospitals often also have a mandatory shower, during lockdown, when mass decontamination is called for. Paul Rega, M.D., FACEP has specifically identified mass decontamination as providing the added benefit of checking for weapons or other contraband, as well as searching for clues among the clothes of persons found at a terrorist attack crime scene where it is recognized that the perpetrator(s) could be among the persons detained for decontamination.
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There has to be probably cause to raid the house.  If an officer observes and illegal act through a window he can enter without a warrant.  If he only suspects illegal activity but has no patent proof he cannot enter the residence.\n\nOhio recently had a case that changed our law.  Under old rules if there were multiple leasees and one agreed to a search it was okay to search.  Now everyone must agree to the search, if one says no then the search is illegal.
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It isn't like they are going to hire you and then do a background check years later.\n\nThe only people who might do that would be if you worked for the government or for government contractor or were in any way a candidate for needing a clearance.\n\nIf none of those, I'd leave it out.\n\nPersonally I think after 10 years of a spotless record  you should be able to clean your record of anything short of murder anyway.
116579
Only if there is a standing warrent issued by a judge.  Otherwise, SUE SUE SUE!!! :D
782318
well if they do stuff out in the open theres nothing to stop you from looking. However if they do stuff behind closed doors, you will need to get a warrent.\n\nBut there is nothing to stop you from pretending to be interested in what they do just to get in to get info
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You should be able to call down to the judicial center and ask if there are any pending warrents for a "your name here"; They should process your call for free but be wary. If they start asking you too many questions and your search shows up positive, there could be a problem. I don't know if there's a way to check online. I don't think so at this point.
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No. Cops need the permission of the owner of the house to search it without a warrant or reasonable suspicion that someone's life was in danger.\n\nEdit: I wanted to add that it is disturbing how many people are saying your brother could let the police in. It is completely illegal. How could any reasonable person think that a 14 year-old, clearly not an adult, could have authority to consent?
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That depends on where you fight it. If you bring this issue up while the police are at your front door, they wait (probably right outside your front door) for a new warrant to be issued and search anyway.\n\nIf you let them search and they find anything incriminating, you have a good chance of getting it deemed inadmissable against you, as long as you get an okay lawyer. \n\nThat does not mean that you get to walk away and go home. Unless of course, there isn't a major stack of other evidence against you to have supported the request for a  search in the first place.\n\nBut be warned, while the search may have been questionable, the law still has the right to claim 'eventual discovery' and have evidence previously declared inadmissable, deemed admissable again. All they have to do is prove that they could have found the evidence against you without having to search your home.
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NO! It is not legal.....Is that what they told you when they fired you?? Go to your superior and ask if this is really true? They cannot legally fire you for that. I don't know of any employer in the U.S.A. that does not do a criminal check on prospective employees. Your DUI would have shown up at that time.\n\nYou have not been told the truth. This is very strange and you should take it further. It's not right.
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Depends on the extent of the background check and the reason for it.  Some background checks are legal, some have to be done with your permission UNLESS you have broken the law or are being investigated.  However, we are not authorized to do criminal background investigations without probable cause.\n\nCheck with an attorney in town.\n\nLet me reiterate.  I am Federal, not city, or state.  You can not do criminal backgrounds on your neighboors and friends.  D.C. monitors this, and you lose your NCIC certifications.