Prohibición de registros íntimos a menores de edad

Explicación Simple

Esta ley dice que los policías no pueden hacer registros íntimos a niños menores de 18 años, a menos que crean que tienen un arma. Así protegen la privacidad de los menores.

Es como cuando un profesor no puede revisar la mochila de un estudiante sin una buena razón; necesita asegurarse de que hay un motivo real antes de hacerlo.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que un policía detiene a un grupo de adolescentes por un malentendido. Si no hay razones claras para pensar que alguno de ellos tiene un arma, no puede hacer un registro íntimo a ninguno de ellos, protegiendo su privacidad.

Penalidades

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Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

Except for children committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice or confined or detained in a secure local facility for juveniles or a jail or other facility for the detention of adults and except as provided in subsection E, no child under the age of 18 shall be strip searched or subjected to a search of any body cavity by a law-enforcement officer, as defined in § 9.1-101 , or a jail officer unless the child is in custodial arrest and there is reasonable cause to believe on the part of a law-enforcement officer or jail officer authorizing the search that the child is concealing a weapon. 1981, c. 608; 1995, c. 112 ; 2020, c. 1236 . Va. Code § 19.2-60 - Motion for return of seized property and to suppress. A person aggrieved by an allegedly unlawful search or seizure may move the court to return any seized property and to suppress it for use as evidence. The court shall receive evidence on any issue of fact necessary to the decision of the motion. If the motion is granted by a court of record, any seized property shall be restored as soon as practicable unless otherwise subject to lawful detention, and such property shall not be admissible in evidence at any hearing or trial. If the motion is granted by a court not of record, such property shall not be admissible in evidence at any hearing or trial before that court, but the ruling shall have no effect on any hearing or trial in a court of record. 1975, c. 495.