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Wash. Rev. Code § 10.79.060 (2026)

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It is the intent of the legislature to establish policies regarding the practice of strip searching persons booked into holding, detention, or local correctional facilities. It is the intent of the legislature to restrict the practice of strip searching and body cavity searching persons booked into holding, detention, or local correctional facilities to those situations where such searches are necessary.
[ 1983 1st ex.s. c 42 s 1.]

Notes:

Effective date—1983 1st ex.s. c 42: "This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety, the support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect on July 1, 1983." [ 1983 1st ex.s. c 42 s 10.]
Severability—1983 1st ex.s. c 42: "If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [ 1983 1st ex.s. c 42 s 9.]
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1991–2006 · leading case: State v. Colin, 809 P.2d 228 (Wash. Ct. App. 1991).
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State v. Colin, 809 P.2d 228 (Wash. Ct. App. 1991). “See RCW 10.79.060 through .170. RCW 10.79.070(1) defines the term "strip search" as *115 "having a person remove or arrange some or all of his or her clothing so as to permit an inspection of the genitals, buttocks, anus, or undergarments of the person or breasts of a female…”
State v. RULAN C., 970 P.2d 821 (Wash. Ct. App. 1999). “RCW 10.79.060, stating the legislative intent of the statute, provides: *889 It is the intent of the legislature to establish policies regarding the practice of strip searching persons booked into holding, detention, or local correctional facilities.”
Plemmons v. Pierce Cnty., 140 P.3d 601 (Wash. Ct. App. 2006). · cites it 2× “RCW 10.79.060 (emphasis added). This statement does not directly address the specific issue here, but it clearly expresses the legislature’s intent to “restrict” strip searches of persons booked into local correctional facilities to “situations where such searches are necessary.”
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