Hooray for Savana Redding, the young girl strip searched in school when she was 13 for possessing suspected ibuprofen pills, cause that’s on the same crime base as pot and coke. I wrote about it here.
The court ruled the search was illegal. I rather think it was common sense but schools these days don’t have much of that. I’d like to see the school’s vice principal, Kerry Wilson who initated the search humilitated. That’s really the best punishment for such a bastard. I’m pleased for Redding and hope this case will eliminate misappropriated authority in schools onto teens.
“The court’s decision sends a clear signal to school officials that they can strip search students only in the most extraordinary situations,” added her lawyer, Adam Wolf of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. (source)
the down side (thanks Radley Balko!) is ‘The opinion said the strip may have been valid had officials been looking for illegal drugs, and the individual officials who performed the illegal search can’t be held liable.’
so, it leaves the door wide open for these bureaucrats to fuck with our daughters…