United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit ____________________ No. 23-3091 RAQUEL HARO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PORTER COUNTY, INDIANA, DARROLYN S. BRADLEY, and PORTER COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT, Defendants-Appellees. ____________________

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, Hammond Division. No. 2:21-CV-131-TLS — Theresa L. Springmann, Judge. ____________________

ARGUED OCTOBER 24, 2024 — DECIDED FEBRUARY 24, 2025 ____________________

Before EASTERBROOK, KIRSCH, and PRYOR, Circuit Judges. KIRSCH, Circuit Judge. After being arrested at a college party, Raquel Haro was subjected to a strip search, including a visual cavity inspection, during the booking and intake pro- cess at Porter County Jail. As a security measure, the jail has all arrestees pass through a body scanner. Jail officials singled out Haro for a strip search because her body scan revealed a small, unidentified object in her pelvic region. Haro concedes 2 No. 23-3091 that the scan gave rise to reasonable suspicion of concealed contraband and thus justified a strip search. But she maintains that reasonable suspicion vanished mid-strip search when it was revealed that she wore a bodysuit that fastened between her legs with metal snaps. According to Haro, continuing the strip search after this point was unreasonable and unlawful. Haro sued Porter County, the county sheriff’s department, and the officer who conducted the search under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the strip search violated her rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. The district court granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment, con- cluding that the strip search was both justified and reasonable in scope. We agree and affirm. I Shortly after midnight, police arrived at a duplex apart- ment in Valparaiso, Indiana, to investigate a noise complaint. Raquel Haro lived in the apartment along with two room- mates. One of Haro’s roommates was hosting a party to cele- brate his fraternity’s new inductees. Though some party at- tendees were under 21, Haro was of legal drinking age and was in the kitchen making cookies when police arrived. Offic- ers requested the names of everyone on the lease and ulti- mately arrested Haro and her roommates on suspicion of fur- nishing alcohol to minors. Haro later testified that she had never been arrested before. Officers transported Haro and her roommates to Porter County Jail, where they went through a body scanner as part of the booking process. The jail had recently acquired a Soter RS Body Scanner, which can reveal concealed objects that are of a different density than human tissue, including metal, No. 23-3091 3 weapons, and narcotics. Haro signed a waiver indicating that she had no health conditions that would make a scan unsafe but denies being asked whether she had anything on her body that might show up on the scan. When she arrived at the jail, Haro was wearing a sweat- shirt, jeans, a bodysuit, and undergarments. The bodysuit, which Haro wore under her jeans, fastened between her legs with two small metal snaps. The snaps appeared on the body scan as a single, dark, oval-shaped object in Haro’s pelvic re- gion. After viewing the scan, the supervising officer, Sergeant William Watkins, ordered a female officer, Officer Darrolyn Bradley, to perform a strip search of Haro. Both Sgt. Watkins and Officer Bradley knew that some women’s bodysuits have metal snaps between the legs, but no one mentioned the anomaly on the scan to Haro, and Haro did not inform the officers that she had metal in her pelvic are