Posted
9/29/2007 05:36:00 PM
by Douglas
You might think the legal system of this country would frown on public schools strip-searching adolescent girls because other students reported she had Advil, but you'd be
wrong.Safford Middle School officials did not violate the civil rights of a 13-year-old Safford girl when they forced her to disrobe and expose her breasts and pubic area four years ago while looking for a drug, according to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling.
The justices voted 2-1 in favor of the Safford School District on Sept. 21. The decision upheld a federal district court's summary judgment that Safford Middle School Vice Principal Kerry Wilson, school nurse Peggy Schwallier and administrative assistant Helen Romero did not violate the girl's Fourth Amendment rights on Oct. 8, 2003, when they subjected her to a strip search in an effort to find Ibuprofen
So it's come to this? We've become so dumbstruck by our idiotic drug war that public school dictators can strip search children because they brought a freakin' aspirin to school?