The State - News from March 8, 1988

A federal judge ordered the Immigration and Naturalization Service to halt strip searches of juveniles in alien detention centers unless there is reason to believe that they are carrying weapons or contraband. U.S. District Judge Robert Kelleher rejected the government’s arguments that strip searches are necessary to assure security at the INS’ three detention centers in California, writing in his opinion that, “Children are especially susceptible to possible traumas from strip searches. . . . It is a time and condition of life when a person may be more susceptible to influence and to psychological damage.”