LI officials: Strip searches now rare in minor crimes
Photo credit: Newsday File Image | A police recruit jogs around the Nassau County Jail.
As a federal judge in Central Islip measures the impact that illegal strip searches have on a person's dignity, he will consider how people arrested in Nassau County were forced to remove their clothes, lift various body parts and squat naked.
At issue is Nassau's past practice of strip-searching those arrested for minor offenses. Payments to those forced to strip by county law enforcement...
