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California Visitor Search Ruling Modified
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1993, page 7
A 13-point injunction concerning searches of visitors to California prisons was scrutinized March 23 and modified in some particulars by the California Court of Appeals, First District. The injunction was the result of a suit challenging a program under which visitors' vehicles were subjected to random inspections by drug-detection dogs. ...
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