The suit claims state body scanners' inability to distinguish between contraband and menstrual products has led to strip searches and firings. One of those things is having to be strip searched while on your period.8News has learned of adult visitors being stripsearched multiple times and some women are still being singled out for using tampons. Virginia's corrections department says there's no evidence its strip search policies intentionally discriminate against women. "We really wanted to point out that they can't ban or threaten to ban people if they did not go through a strip search. "Leaders in the Law" is Virginia Lawyers Weekly's signature event. On October 12, 2011, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of County of Burlington. I work in the intake unit of a juvenile detention center. Protesters said sheriff's deputies sometimes acted in ways that exacerbated the humiliation of a strip search.