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Title: Strip Searches of Students: Addressing the Undressing of Children in Schools and Redressing the Fourth Amendment Violations.
Author : Missouri Law Review
Release Date : January 22, 2010
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 389 KB

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I. INTRODUCTION In 2003, a school principal ordered the strip search of a thirteen-year-old girl who he suspected had hidden prescription-strength ibuprofen in her day planner a few days earlier. (1) Although no one had suggested she might be concealing drugs in her clothing, the girl was forced to remove her clothes and pull out her underwear so that the school nurse could look between her breasts and around her pelvic area for pills. (2) The search yielded nothing. (3) Afterward, the teenager, an honor student, was forced to sit alone outside the principal's office for two hours; her parents were not called. (4) The girl's mother sued the school officials for violating her daughter's Fourth Amendment rights, and, after years of extensive litigation, the United States Supreme Court heard the case Safford Unified School District No. 1 v. Redding in 2009. (5) The Court held that, although the principal may have violated the girl's Fourth Amendment rights, he would not be held liable for his actions. (6)