Strip-Search Case Could Redefine Student Privacy
By Robert Barnes
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 11, 2009; Page A01
SAFFORD, Ariz. -- April Redding was waiting in the parking lot of the middle school when she heard news she could hardly understand: Her 13-year-old daughter, Savana, had been strip-searched by school officials in a futile hunt for drugs.
It's a story that amazes and enrages her still, more than six years later, though she has relived it many times since. Read more HERE.
There’s another article about this in today’s Washington Post. I must say I am surprised by the different justices’ perceptions, and share what seemed “exasperation” by Justice Ginsberg.
ReplyDeleteYes, it was a strip search, and no, it was not comparable to disrobing for gym class (not even close).