Pubdate: Mon, 10 Dec 2001
Source: Daily News, The (CN NS)
Copyright: 2001 The Daily News
Contact:  http://www.canada.com/halifax/dailynews/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/179
Author: Beverley Ware, The Daily News
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/raids.htm (Drug Raids)

WOMAN MAY APPEAL STRIP-SEARCH RULING

One Of The Women Strip-searched At A Rave A Year Ago May Re-open Her 
Complaint Against Police.

Aimee Kindervater complained to the Nova Scotia Police Commission after she 
and and her friend, Aleashia Stanley, were strip searched during a search 
for drugs.

They lost their case. But a Supreme Court of Canada ruling narrowing the 
use of strip searches may spark her to try again.

"Quite possibly (I'll appeal). But I have to look at everything, the time 
it takes, the money, before I decide if it's really worth it," she said.

Kindervater said her case took a toll on her emotionally, as well as on her 
time. She said it took nearly a year to wind its way through the system, 
forcing her to miss work and cancel a vacation.

The Supreme Court has ruled police had no automatic right to strip search a 
Toronto drug dealer even though they had watched two drug transactions 
before arresting him. They found cocaine hidden in his buttocks.

Kindervater and Stanley were working at a rave in January 2000, when police 
arrived with a search warrant. They had been told that the building's owner 
had hidden drugs in the ceiling tiles.

The two young women were among several told to remove their clothes in a 
washroom so police could search them for drugs. They didn't find any drugs 
and no charges were laid. Halifax Regional Police plan to develop a formal 
procedure for strip searches.
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