Thursday, June 25, 2009

Child's Strip Search Found Illegal By High Court

In a case that sparked my personal fury and much controversy concerning how far administrators can go in their hunt to remove "the scourge of drugs" from their schools, the high court found (rightly) that the accusation of one student that another has prescription drugs does not give school officials the right to strip search the student, especially when the accusation was not corroborated nor was their any mention of the supposed contraband being located in her under garments.

Link to the full USAToday story here.

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