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Opinion here:

Andra Thompson v. State of Indiana

The short version is that it is not reasonable to conduct a search with a civilian TV camera, especially if the TV film is broadcast to the whole world, showing a person's private parts.

What a sickening case. The undercover cop talks to the guy on the phone, and the guy says he'll come to the motel to sell her some drugs. So he gets to the motel, and as soon as he arrives they arrest him--before any drugs are even witnessed. *Then* they take him into the bathroom for the butt-check. Doesn't sound to me like they even had cause to arrest him before the search. And even if they *did* have cause to arrest him before any drugs were visible, wouldn't the police station be the proper location for searching his ass? Seems pretty obvious that they just wanted to get the butt search on tape, otherwise they would've done what normal cops do, i.e., wait for the guy to pull out the drugs and *then* arrest him.