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Judge to Cops: No More of This 'Kansas Two-Step'

Judge Orders Cops to Stop
Using This Stalling Tactic

Nov 22, 2023 7:21 AM CST

Judge Orders Cops to Stop Using This Stalling Tactic

Permanent injunction bars Kansas Highway Patrol from using 'Kansas Two-Step' to try to find drugs

(Newser) - The Kansas Highway Patrol must stop using a tactic known as the "Kansas Two-Step" to detain out-of-state drivers long enough to find a reason to search their vehicles for illegal drugs, a federal judge has ruled. US District Judge Kathryn H. Vratil on Monday granted a permanent injunction, which...

Qatar: Sorry for Yanking Women Off Planes for 'Invasive' Exams

Australia: Women
From 10 Flights Had
'Invasive' Exams in Qatar

Oct 28, 2020 7:48 AM CDT

Australia: Women From 10 Flights Had 'Invasive' Exams in Qatar

Qatar is apologizing after search for abandoned newborn went awry

(Newser) - A baby was born and abandoned at an airport in Doha, Qatar, and now officials are apologizing over their controversial attempt to find the mother amid the revelation that there may have been more women involved than initially reported. After a newborn girl was found Oct. 2 in a trash...

Women Describe 'Horrifying'
Searches by US Customs

Aug 19, 2018 11:15 AM CDT

Women Describe 'Horrifying' Searches by US Customs

The Center for Public Integrity is taking a closer look

(Newser) - Tameika Lovell's case is harrowing—but isn't the only one of its kind. The 34-year-old was returning from a quick jaunt to Jamaica in 2016 when Customs and Border Patrol officers at JFK International allegedly took her into a secure room, squeezed her breasts, searched her vagina with...

Court Backs
Groin Searches at
Guantanamo Bay

Aug 2, 2014 2:02 PM CDT

Court Backs Groin Searches at Guantanamo Bay

Federal judge had rejected procedure last year

(Newser) - Federal appeals court judges have unanimously approved an invasive frisking policy challenged by detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Searches of detainees' groins and anal areas before and after they visit their lawyers are acceptable as "reasonable security policies," judges said, per Reuters . The decision follows the institution of the...

Flier Busted for Blocking 'Crotch-Grab' of Child

Flier Busted
for Blocking
'Crotch-Grab'
of Daughter

Jul 14, 2011 3:22 AM CDT

Flier Busted for Blocking 'Crotch-Grab' of Daughter

Mom nailed as she tries to videotape airport guards with cell phone

(Newser) - A furious mom was busted at an airport on Saturday for blocking a "crotch-grabbing" pat down of her young daughter. Andrea Fornella, 41, was arrested in Nashville en route to Baltimore after shouting at guards that she didn't want her baby's "crotch grabbed" as the TSA...