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March 24, 2009
Strip Searching 13 Year Old Children
The Supreme Court is set to hear a 4th Amendment case where school officials strip searched a 13 year old girl looking for Ibuprofen:
An assistant principal, enforcing the school's antidrug policies, suspected her of having brought prescription-strength ibuprofen pills to school. One of the pills is as strong as two Advils.
The search by two female school employees was methodical and humiliating, Ms. Redding said. After she had stripped to her underwear, "they asked me to pull out my bra and move it from side to side," she said. "They made me open my legs and pull out my underwear."
Ms. Redding, an honors student, had no pills. But she had a furious mother and a lawyer, and now her case has reached the Supreme Court, which will hear arguments on April 21.
"It does not require a constitutional scholar to conclude that a nude search of a 13-year-old child is an invasion of constitutional rights."
I have told Jennifer very clearly on this issue that no one has the right to search her. Not school officials. Not police. Not anyone. Not ever. This is a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment. Tell them "Get a search warrant. I want to speak to my father. I have the right to an attorney. I want to speak to my attorney." And if they continue to physically attempt to search her, she should fight back like a coon in a corner, biting and clawing at the first one to lay a hand on her, screaming "Rape!" the whole time.
But the bigger, and less obvious problem is that the government should not be educating our children. We need to get rid of the Department of Education, and abolish the public school system.
I'm reasonably sure that if an employee of a private school had searched this student, instead of a public servant drone, this would be looked at entirely differently.
Posted by Rob Kiser on March 24, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Comments
from www.reason.com/blog/show/125297.html
The Wine Commonsewer | March 5, 2008, 1:04am
I just went over it with both of mine.
They will scare you.
Keep saying No.
Keep saying call my parents and my lawyer.
Keep saying No.
Keep saying call my parents and my lawyer.
Keep saying No.
Be Strong.
They Will Scare You.
Keep saying 4th Amendment.
This girl thought she had to. You don't.
Posted by: Teach Your Kids on March 25, 2009 at 6:31 AM