22-2521. Same; strip searches; limitations; report. - Kansas Statutes

22-2521

Chapter 22.--CRIMINAL PROCEDURE KANSAS CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE Article 25.--SEARCH AND SEIZURE

      22-2521.   Same; strip searches; limitations; report.(a) No person detained or arrested solely for the violation of a statute,resolution or ordinance involving a traffic, regulatory or nonviolent misdemeanoroffense shall be strip searched unless there is probable cause to believethat the individual is concealing a weapon or controlled substance.

      (b)   Every strip search conducted by law enforcement officers or employeesof a law enforcement agency or department shall be conducted by personsof the same sex as the person being searched and shall be conducted so thatthe search cannot be observed by any person other than the persons conductingthe search, unless the right to privacy is waived by the person being searched.

      (c)   Every law enforcement officer or employee of a law enforcement agencyor department conducting a strip search shall prepare a report of the stripsearch. The report shall include:

      (1)   The name and sex of the person searched;

      (2)   the name and sex of the persons conducting the search;

      (3)   the time, date and place of the search; and

      (4)   a statement of the results of the search.

      History:   L. 1981, ch. 149, § 2; July 1.