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Kizzume
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 Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:07 am Post subject: Was School Strip-Search Legal? |
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http://www.abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=4537765&page=1
This is horrible!
| Quote: | The vice principal then hauled Redding out of class for questioning. After she denied knowing anything about the pills, he asked if she would agree to be searched, and she said she would. The vice principal looked in her backpack, found nothing and then sent her to the nurse's office.
"I was just like, did I do something wrong?" Redding recalls. "I was thinking, if I don't do this [go to the nurse's office], they're going to think that I did do something wrong, and I'll get into more trouble."
While the nurse watched, a female secretary had Redding strip to her underwear, pull her bra to the side and her panties out at the crotch and expose her breasts and pelvic area. After no pills appeared, Redding got dressed.
Redding says she didn't return to class but sat in the vice principal's office and called her mother to pick her up. She was afraid to tell her mom on the phone what had happened, she recalls, because "the secretary was listening" and "I was like really ashamed, like it was my fault." A friend later spilled the beans about the search, and Redding says her mom "was more mad than I was. I felt really stupid."
The incident was so humiliating that Redding says she couldn't return to school for months. "Everyone knew what had happened, and they were talking about me," she recalls. "I got really nervous, developed ulcers and started puking."
Eventually, Redding transferred to another school, and today, at age 17, she is still trying to make up for lost time at what she describes as an alternative high school.
"I remember how much I enjoyed school," she says. "I won all kinds of certificates, I was on the honor roll, I was doing pretty good. And I had never been in trouble before."
"I would have felt better if they had called my mom" before doing the strip search, she says.
Wright, the lawyer for the school district, says the school's strict drug policy is still in effect. He is not aware of any specific rules on strip searches but stresses the duty of schools "to closely supervise students and provide a safe environment." As for the strip search of Redding, he says it was based on "reasonable grounds."
"Remember," he says, "this was prescription strength Ibuprofen." |
Wow, prescription strength. What a horrible thing. My goodness! 
What kind of prescription drugs were they (administrators) on? What kind of pedophilic people are at that school?
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debo
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That just aint right, damn
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HellFinger
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Location: King Salmon, Alaska
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Saw this story a while back and was appalled. Here's the kicker: She was searched because another girl who actually did have the pills and got in trouble lied about this other girl having pills.
Anyway, this was pushed up the ladder in the appeals process and the Court of Appeals ruled it unconstitutional just a few weeks ago. ACLU:Court Rules Strip Search of Teen Unconstitutional
From the URL above:
“A reasonable school official, seeking to protect the students in his charge, does not subject a thirteen-year-old girl to a traumatic search to ‘protect’ her from the danger of Advil,” the court wrote in today’s opinion. “We reject Safford’s effort to lump together these run-of-the-mill anti-inflammatory pills with the evocative term ‘prescription drugs,’ in a knowing effort to shield an imprudent strip search of a young girl behind a larger war against drugs.”
Now, had my 13 year old daughter been strip searched at school, even by the nurse, I would have called an attorney and the police immediately to file charges of sexual assault. Just the kind of jerk I am, I guess since I never gave consent to any search for my minor child especially in the nude while I was never notified. And then there's the whole, 'why is my daughter being forced against her will to undress for school officials'. All this because another 13 year old told you something when she was in trouble? A serious err in judgment on the part of the school administration.
Seeing how this was ruled illegal, I would have really pushed the issue of sexual misconduct. She will probably get millions in the settlement, but really people need to start going away to jail for violations of rights while serving in a public capacity. Something called 'Abuse of Authority' comes to mind here.
Zero tolerance drug policy consequence: Our children are now being forced to undress for adults at school.
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