This post discusses the legality of nonconsensual strip searches. As mentioned in Part I, strip searches at jails and prisons are discussed here.(j) Complete Search A stripsearch (removal of all person's clothing) and a search of the person's effects. In North Carolina, the answer generally is yes. A strip search is a practice of searching a person for weapons or other contraband suspected of being hidden on their body or inside their clothing In North Carolina, the answer to that question is usually yes. Yesterday a divided Supreme Court ruled in Florence v. Police will not strip search you, especially on public. Thus, a police officer's directive that a person strip down to her underwear was deemed a "strip search" in Justice v. After the officers arrested the defendant, without an arrest warrant, the crime scene technician strip searched him without a search warrant.